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...graduate, with the Pentagon paying 75% of the tab. To apply its fabulous technology, the U.S. military has become an extraordinary teacher of everything from astronautics to electronics to nucleonics to teaching itself. Now the Defense Department even has a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education. He is Edward L. Katzenbach Jr., a driving man of 44 who runs a $350 million-a-year empire that spurs learning throughout the armed forces, although it does not control such elite professional schools as West Point and the Naval War College...
Until recently, military education was a welter of waste, duplication and congressional bewilderment. In 1961, Katzenbach was brought in to organize military learning, coordinate it with civilian education. Katzenbach, whose younger brother Nicholas is U.S. Deputy Attorney General, had the right pedigree for both sides. He earned his Legion of Merit as a Marine officer at Eniwetok, his Ph.D. at Princeton. He taught history at Columbia, directed defense studies at Harvard and academic development at Brandeis...
...Katzenbach's toughest problem is the U.S.'s ninth biggest school system-the 284 overseas schools serving 161,040 children of military men abroad. He hears bitter complaints from the schools' 7,000 civilian teachers, whose pay has risen only $100 a year since 1960. But he has three applicants for every vacancy, and is striving hard to standardize everything from grading to accounting...
That was the signal for administration aides to go frantically to work. At one point Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach phoned Minnesota Republican Clark MacGregor, a member of the Judiciary Committee, and asked: "Do you know of anything we can do?" Replied MacGregor: "Of course I do. You can go get the Republican civil rights bills that you told us this summer you hadn't bothered to read, and you can look at what's in them and you can draw up a package containing what's in them and have the President say publicly...
Scarcely an hour later, Katzenbach attended a White House meeting with President Kennedy and House leaders from both parties. The worried President said: "We've got to do something about this present situation because the subcommittee bill doesn't have much chance to pass Congress. We've got to do something." MacGregor's proposal was discussed, and Kennedy asked the Congressmen what they thought. Manny Celler seemed willing, and the President appeared ready to consider...