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...which he secured one of the most far-reaching federal-aid-to-education acts in U.S. history, Lyndon Johnson last week assembled some 700 of the nation's most imaginative educators and nonacademic civic leaders for a White House Conference on Education. The size and scope of the two-day meeting led to one clear conclusion: the nation's top teacher is planning another big federal push into education, perhaps next year, and is reaching for both ideas and support...
...accounts, does Lyndon Johnson, the man whom Humphrey promised to love, honor and obey when he took on the vice-presidency. Wherever Johnson cannot be, Humphrey is. Last week that meant a two-day, five-speech swing around the Western U.S. Landing in San Diego, he plunged into a sea of greeting hands. "How are you, young lady?" he bubblingly inquired of a woman who must have been...
Through the year, an eleven-man "Committee on the Graduate Study of Education" has met every Wednesday; last week it held a two-day windup session. Aided by a $25,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation, committee members have visited schools of education across the country and invited specialists to Cambridge for consultation. Meanwhile, a permanent research staff has written hundreds of pages on the historical development of the ed school and summarized earlier studies by other universities and the federal government...
...That's Cute." During its two-day session, the Coordinating Committee issued five position papers, ranging from criticism of the Democratic Administration for inadequate enforcement of civil rights laws to charges of military impotence in South Viet Nam. But all this was overshadowed by another small squabble. House Republicans announced that they were sending a four-man delegation to Europe to investigate the disrepair into which NATO has fallen because of the Johnson Administration's neglect. House Minority Leader Ford called the mission "one of the major undertakings" of this year's congressional session...
...spirits of a pack of campfire girls, the ladies from Washington headed south through the green hills of Virginia last week. "Y'all have a good time," ordered Lyndon B. Johnson as his spouse and nine Cabinet wives left the White House on the First Lady's two-day "Landscapes and Landmarks" tour of the Old Dominion. A late arrival was Muriel Humphrey, wife of the Vice President, who managed to join the silver Trailways bus 40 minutes down the road...