[For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested in governors of states; each state and federal government half responsible; money allocated by Bureau of Public Roads; vocational education by formulas for objectives needed; 1967 amendments added low cost housing and program funding; Joe Califano and Charlie Schultze; 1967 Act gave independence to Agency; staff of 75 people; short term objective; move to line agencies of federal and state; LBJ favorably disposed to program; Fleming pleased with result
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