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Easy Manner. When he entered the G.O.P. race last fall, State Controller Houston Flournoy was familiar chiefly to Californians who received tax refunds in envelopes bearing his name. Former Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford, Flournoy's Los Angeles County campaign chairman, complained that many people thought the candidate "was a guy from Houston who wants to put Flournoy in the water." Flournoy was actually born in New York City and educated at Cornell and Princeton, where he earned a doctorate in political science. He came to California in 1957 to join the political-science faculty at Pomona College...
...will run Action is the member of the Administration whom the President considers best able to talk to the young: Joseph Blatchford, 37, head of the Peace Corps since early in the Administration and a unique figure in Nixon's button-down Washington. His sideburns are long, his hair falls over his shirt collar, and on occasion he has been seen sporting a fringed leather jacket. One morning during the Mayday demonstrations, Blatchford emerged from his Georgetown house into a crowd of militants. They watched suspiciously as he donned a white helmet and straddled his Yamaha 275 motorcycle. Unrecognized...
...Blatchford often finds young audiences confronting him with the blunt question, "Why do you work for those guys?" He concedes that "not everybody trusts this Administration," but lately, under his leadership, the Peace Corps has come out of a long slump in attracting volunteers: there have been 21,638 applicants thus far in 1971, v. 19,022 in all of 1970. The various agencies that Nixon wants to include in Action now have a combined budget of $160 million. In order to make the consolidation of volunteer organizations more attractive to members of Congress, Nixon offered an extra $20 million...
Nixon announced that he will soon ask Congress to merge the Peace Corps, VISTA and several other activities into a volunteer corps for national and international service under the leadership of Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford. Said the President: "I intend to make it an agency through which those willing to give their lives and energy can work at cleaning up the environment, combatting illiteracy, malnutrition, suffering and blight either abroad or at home...
...Basically our New Directions approach has stressed the need for both minority volunteers and skilled volunteers." Blatchford added. "The response from the countries where we are located has indicated that there is a much greater need for individuals skilled in an area like mechanics, farming, or business organization, rather than your basic liberal arts graduate...