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...scuffling was far from over. For the Senate had also attached to the CCC bill riders aimed at blocking an Administration economy plan for the prompt shutdown of 15 Veterans Administration hospitals and rest homes and 20 small Agriculture Department research centers. Among those opposing the President was Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, fighting the closing of a VA hospital in his own Montana...
...idea-and the idealism-behind the Job Corps stems from the old CCC camps of the '30s. The kids will sign on for one-or two-year stints, move into rural "camps" (to be built in U.S.-owned parks or forests) or urban "centers" (mostly abandoned military barracks near cities). Forty-one sites in 21 states have been picked, about 130 are projected for completion by next June. Governors can veto Job Corps installations in their states if they wish, but so far none have. Still, Shriver has had his problems with local folks. In Yorktown, Va., last September...
...flatly that "no man in the White House has ever moved faster" than Johnson. In the hectic beginning days of the New Deal, F.D.R. announced the Good Neighbor Policy, called the bank holiday, passed the Federal Emergency Relief Act, took the U.S. off the gold standard, and started the CCC, AAA, TVA, HOLC, FDIC, FCA, NRA and WPA. And all that in 100 days, not five months. Johnson is a whirlwind, but Roosevelt was a cyclone...
...Youth Employment Bill would establish two "Youth Corps": a Youth Conservation Corps modeled on the depression-time CCC to work on federal conservation projects, and a Home Town Youth Corps, whose members would do social work in their home towns...
Freeman claims that his 1962 feed grain program was a "dramatic success." He points to sharp drops in the CCC's inventories of corn and other feed grains. That claim is sharply disputed by President Charles Shuman of the National Farm Bureau Federation, biggest of U.S. farmer organizations. Freeman's 1962 feed grain venture, says Shuman, cost about $768 million in diversion payments, with additional expenditures for higher price supports and extra administrative expenses. For its money, argues Shuman, the Agriculture Department got too little: the farmers participating in the program increased their per-acre yields so effectively...