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  • and [Robert] Kerr, Senator Kerr. Bob Myers was also there; he was then the Chief Actuary of Social Security. And Kennedy got up and made this speech in favor of Medicare, and Kerr waited to the end and he made his speech against it and in favor of what
  • with the Attorney General Robert Kennedy being the brother of the President that, even more than usual, the Office of Legal Counsel was called upon by White House folks in legal matters in which the White House cared about a very great deal. Therefore, it seemed
  • . Then under Kennedy you joined the Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Policy. CK: That's right. K: Till 1966, yes. The same one then went on under President Johnson. Then also you were on President Kennedy's Railroad Emergency Board. I want to skip
  • things kind of came together and had different meaning as a resul t of reading it. I thi nk it was a very important contri- buti,on. G: Did you ever talk to President Kennedy about the poverty program, or what should be done? LBJ Presidential Library
  • of the Senate as Vice President at the time my confirmation hearing came up, and he noticed my name on the calendar. That afternoon, after the confirmation hearing, I was in the office of Robert Giaimo, the Democratic congressman from my Connecticut district
  • ; naming the 1st model cities; working with the White House as LBJ’s power waned; Robert Wood; Vietnam’s effect on domestic spending; problems with progressing from plans to action; difficulty with appropriation of funds; working in cooperation
  • believe, a businessman. There were blacks; there ~'1as one of the principal editors of Ebony magazine. It was across the board; IQrs. Robert ~lcNamara on the Council, as did economist J. Kenneth Galbraith. served LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 26, 1971 M: You are Judge Anthony Celebrezze, and your connection with the Johnson Administration was as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, which you had actually undertaken in 1962 under President Kennedy
  • on the President's making his statement. M: Would you consider this the current recognition of a world population problem? L: Well, it was the first time of course a President had ever given it that kind of recognition. President Kennedy was so much more cautious
  • House back in the early years of the Kennedy Administration to discuss with Mac Bundy and Ralph Dungan, who was then the President's chief ''headhunter'' for finding people to take on major jobs in the Federal administration. I was invited to discuss
  • , no, education, social science, human behavior. I was on the scientific advisory board of the Air Force; I was chairman of President Kennedy's Commission on International Education and Cultural Affairs, and I was a member of President Kennedy's task force
  • of numerous fountain pens at the signing of some of these major bills. My work was primarily with the people who are the principal historical figures of this period--first, Francis Keppel, Commissioner of Education under President Kennedy and later President