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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry G. Cisneros told a crowd of about 250 yesterday that community change can only come about through a marriage of government and grass roots initiatives.
Speaking on the 30th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy '40, Cisneros told the assembled audience "[Kennedy's] legacy was not a legacy of despair."
Cisneros said Kennedy's life and death instead taught us "that people do make a difference."
Determined to integrate a defiantly all-white housing project in a mostly white Texas burg, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros ordered the federal seizure of Vidor Village, a public housing facility in the town of Vidor, and fired the heads of the local housing authority. Under court...
For now, Henry Cisneros must simply cope from crisis to crisis. He will continue reading to his son, turning down Washington invitations when he has to, and hoping desperately for another birthday.