Agency and department-level reaction to LBJ’s use of task forces to change policy-making; information leaking out of the task force system; the effect of the task force operation on the Bureau of the Budget; William Cannon; relationship between the Bureau of the Budget and HEW; John Gardner; dispute resolution between HEW and the Bureau of the Budget; lack of funding for domestic programs; credibility gap between State of the Union and the published budget; events leading up to the tax increase of January 1968; Great Society educational programs and their implementation; lack of acceptance of criticism of the Great Society; LBJ’s faults in administering Great Society programs.
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Citation
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-careyw-19860116-2-04-27