Word: cooney
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Targeting her efforts especially towards 3 to 5-year-old children from low income families, Cooney drove the creation of Sesame Street. First airing in 1969, the program aimed at preparing underprivileged preschoolers for kindergarten...
...late 1960s Joan Ganz Cooney, a producer at a New York City public television station, became convinced that the medium could be used for early childhood education...
Hyslop, along with Sesame Street's creators, praise the unique skills Cooney used to realize her brainchild...
...film) shares resumes with campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald. Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the manic "dust buster" who tries to cover up Stanton's peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages, is similar to Betsey Wright, Governor Clinton's chief of staff and trigger-happy troubleshooter. Lawrence Harris (Kevin Cooney), the New England Senator who runs against Stanton until being felled by a heart attack, could be the physically frail Paul Tsongas. Cashmere McLeod (Gia Carides) stands in for Gennifer Flowers. And Fred Picker (Larry Hagman), the white knight who comes out of retirement to threaten Stanton's front-runner...
Past recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom include former Senator Bob Dole, former surgeon general C. Everett Coop, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., public service professor of jurisprudence at the Kennedy School of Government, Eugene Lang, founder and chair of the "I Have a Dream" Foundation and Joan Ganz Cooney, the creator of "Sesame Street...