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Walter Gilliam
@WalterGilliam
Husband, father, teacher, wonk. Product of public ed. Yale Prof of Child Psych. Unfettered to common sense. (Views mine, but could be ours) #FirstGen
Feb 12, 2019 • 25 tweets • 10 min read
Excellent @nytimes op by @KathaPollitt on how close we came to universal affordable child care before Nixon-vetoed 1971 CCDA.

Ed Zigler, architect of CCDA, died just 2 days before this article. He was my mentor. Here’s the story he told me.

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nytimes.com/2019/02/09/opi… Zigler was the last living member of the 1965 Head Start planning committee & the first director of the Office of Child Development during Nixon Admin (1970-72).

Nixon tasked Zigler w/ writing the 1971 Comprehensive Child Development Act.

Note, Nixon wanted it!

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Jun 24, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Just now, at Washington DC’s Reagan National Airport, my taxi driver noted that the driver of this pictured car had refused a blind woman to board with her seeing-eye dog (insisting to put the dog in the trunk). “You cannot treat people like that,” he said.

Thread 1/6 “That is someone’s mother or grandmother. She needs the dog to see,” pleading her case. He cited the rules of taxi drivers and then reported the driver. “He should not be allowed to drive anyone, if he does not drive everyone.”

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