Talk:National Institute of Education

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The article "National Institute of Education" refers only to the institution of that name in Singapore, and it is thus incorrect to have it linked to "John Brademas," who  was the Congressman responsible for shepherding the Nixon-era legislation creating a short-lived US nstitution of the same name in 1971. The US NIE was proposed by President Richard M. Nixon on the prompting of Patrick Moynihan, who was at the time a White House staffer, drinking buddy of the President, a prominent public intellectual. Brademas was at the time third in Democratic seniority in the House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on Education, a somewhat catch-all subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee. As a prominent liberal, a strong proponent of Federal aid to education, and intellectual of roughly Moynihan's stripe, Brademas was a plausible person to support the bill. He introduced a version of the bill, HR. 5606, drafted by Galen Power, a White House routine draftsman uninterested in the actual content of any legislation, and then looked around for somebody to look after it -- and he found me, David Lloyd-Jones (now 416-929-5007 whoever cleans this up is welcome to call me..), at the time an editor a American Heritage Publishing in New York. I had a variety of perhaps strange credentials, and he hired me for the job. This mean that I, a Canadian, spent the next couple of years as the Professional Staff of Select Education (along with a bright lawyer, two secretaries and a student). It was great fun and among other things gave me the unique experience of spending $700 million of the taxpayers' money before breakfast (on veteran's rehabilitation) simply because there was nobody else around at 7:30 in the morning to move the money out...

The Legislation passed in November 1971, I think it was, and I then served for some months on the Administration's planning committee, which instantiated it. By the time it came into existence, in late 1972, I was in Japan (where I later built the first 400 coin laundries -- before me no coin laundries, because Japanese Culture knew full well that Japanese women just loved doing laundry by hand. Hah!)

My White House counterpart in all of this was the excellent Chester Finn, now at the Hudson Institute, and detailed research work on the whole effort was done by Roger Levien, then at Rand Corporation, who had earlier been co-director of the International Association for Applied Systems Analysis (Schloss Laxenberg, Vienna) --which only the  most suspicious and cynical persons could imagine was a CIA front operated in cooperation with the Russians...

Ah, yes, I did love Washington, and love it still. Cheers, -dlj. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DavidLJ (talk • contribs) 16:57, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

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