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- LBJ Presidential Library
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More on LBJ Library oral histories:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B
- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Henry Loomis’ relationship with LBJ; reorganization of the Office of Education; the Bailey Report; flaws in the former administrative management of OE; comparisons of State Departments; efforts to bring OE closer to communities and educators
- and served in that capacity with some leaves of
absence for brief service periods in government up until 1962.
Well, I took a year's leave of absence and went up to Wesleyan University as a
Fellow. After that I became national affairs editor of The Reporter
- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- House.
-came as a special assistant in counsel in 1965.
I understand you
You came over from
the State Department.
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Right.
I came on loan fro m t he State Department for about six months.
I was still being paid by the State Department
- . The Johnson Administration, in introducing all
these~ new programs, has introduced them across the board in the Federal
Gove~~ent. You find them in the Office of Econo!l)ic Opportunity, in the
Labo::i Department, in aspects of the Model Cities Program related
- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Delinquency
under Dave Hackett in the development of the community action program. The typical
program funded under the PCJD involved funds from Ford, sometimes from the National
Institute of Mental Health, often from a unit of the Labor Department