Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO Advisory Council; LBJ’s interest in OEO Council and also National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children; initiation of Upward Bound program; John Gardner and the Gardner task force; White House Conference on Education, 1965; HEW; Wilbur Cohen and Elliot Richardson as managers of HEW; proliferation of educational legislation and funding under LBJ and consolidation of same under Nixon.
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