Conversation Details
President Johnson berated House Education and Labor Committee chair Adam Clayton Powell Jr. [D–New York] for his failure to advance the elementary and secondary education bill through his committee. Frustrated by Powell’s attempt to gain funding for other priorities as a price for reporting the education bill, Johnson dismissed Powell’s concern about an education clause in the administration’s Appalachia bill.
Date:
March 1, 1965
Topic:
Education
Location
Oval Office
Conversation
WH6503-01-7007
Conversation Participants
Presidential Daily Diary Excerpt
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