The best book on that time and subject is Edward Humes’ Over Here: How the GI Bill Transformed the American Dream, summarized by Mary Paulsell for the Columbia Daily Tribune: Reagan’s OMB Director David Stockman told Congress that students were “tax eaters … a drain and drag on the American economy And the result-the return on our government’s investment in those 8 million educations-was substantial. ![]() They were two among almost 8 million young men and women who not only got free tuition from the 1944 GI Bill but also received a stipend to pay for room, board, and books. ![]() ![]() My dad dropped out after two years and went to work in a steel plant because mom got pregnant with me Louise’s dad, Bob Goussy, who’d grown up dirt poor, went all the way for his law degree and ended up an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan. These various perspectives became an article of faith across the GOPīoth my father and my wife Louise’s father served in the military during World War II and both went to college on the GI Bill.
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