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Article: Regional Finalists for White House Fellowships Announced
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- U.S. Newswire
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- February 28, 1996
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The White House today named
121 Americans from 29 states as regional finalists for 1996-97 White
House Fellowships.
White House Fellows work for a year as full-time paid assistants
to Cabinet officers and senior White House staffers. They also
participate in an educational program of off-the-record meetings with
top national leaders -- Supreme Court justices, members of Congress,
Cabinet officers, Fortune 500 executives, prominent journalists and
others. The non-partisan program was created by President Johnson
and John Gardner, his HEW secretary, who later founded Common Cause.
"Americans have always been great dreamers and willing
experimenters," ...