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“Republican President Dwight Eisenhower issued a direct challenge to that belief when he built thousands of brand-new schools across America and rolled out programs in elementary grades for gifted working class kids (I was in one in the 1950s).”

I WAS TOO! As was my brother.

For which I am ever grateful.

I went on to university and then to medical school. He earned a Ph.D. In engineering.

Don’t know if that would have happened without those programs.

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