Word: assaulted
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This cataract of criticism is aimed at an idealistic program without precedent in hope or scope. In less than two years the assault on poverty has cost $2.3 billion, directly reached 3,000,000 of the poor, and generated a spectrum of social-welfare commitments unmatched by any previous Administration in U.S. history. It was first envisioned by John F. Kennedy, who set the crusade in motion six months before his assassination, convinced by a spate of studies that the U.S., for all its easy affluence, still harbored stubborn depths of deprivation and despair...
...concern has become the concern of an entire nation. Since his succession to the presidency, Lyndon Johnson has repeatedly limned the plight of those he has called, paraphrasing Disraeli, "that other nation within a nation-the poor-whose distress has not captured the conscience of America." Enthusiastically embracing the assault on poverty as "my kind of program," Johnson in his first State of the Union message pledged allegiance to those who "live on the outskirts of hope-some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both." Vowed the President: "This Administration...
Sargent Shriver sees his agency as the leader in the assault on poverty. "The programs of the OEO will cost the taxpayers only 1? out of every tax dollar," he says, "but this 1? provides the cutting edge of all our efforts. Because our 1? is directed at selfhelp, self-motivation, education and local community action, all of our programs are designed ultimately to end poverty...
When Arthur Schlesinger Jr. let loose his thunderbolt against Dean Rusk last Sunday, the liberal wing of the Democratic Party at last found its target. The assault began on February 17th when Senator Robert Kennedy criticized the Johnson Administration for a lack of realism in refusing to negotiate directly with the NLF, and the attack continued when John Kenneth Galbraith appeared before the Fulbright Committee and called for a "new generation" of statesmen. Schlesinger's salvo, however, cleverly emphasized party unity by dissociating the President from the Administration's foreign policy and resting the blame squarely on the Secretary...
...Wimpy King Size" or "Le Super Wimpy King Size"-all hamburgers-a Frenchman might be expected to cry out for a double cognac and forget about lunch. In fact, more and more Frenchmen are gobbling a snack and forgoing a leisurely feast at lunchtime. The man leading the assault on gastronomical tradition is Jacques Borel, 39, proprietor of 107 snack bars and cafeterias in Paris...