Word: documented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pivot of this debate: the Moynihan report a much suppressed, much leaked Labor Department document that strips away usual equivocations and exposes the ugly truth about the big city Negro's plight...
...report was entitled The Negro Family: The Case for National Action. It was written by me (I was then Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy Planning and Research), with the assistance of Paul Barton and Ellen Broderick of the Policy Planning Staff. It was an internal document entirely: intended for the Secretary of Labor, the President, and the members of their staffs who would accept or reject its proposals and implications. A hundred copies were produced, but with on expectation of using even that few. The objectives of the report were twofold. First: to argue the need for seizing...
...almost every last penny of this increase would go to middle-class persons whose salaries are already well above the poverty level. The thought of giving the money directly to the Negro family in the form of a family allowance is not even suggested in the report, a document in any event destined for instant obscurity. The delegates were bored from the outset, and contented themselves with passing resolutions of no greater political realism than the report itself: "That J. Edgar Hoover be fired," "That the President ask for $2 billion to enforce Civil Rights laws." The President spoke briefly...
More than any other state document, the annual budget forces a President to translate rhetoric into reality, to assign priorities and price tags to his visions. The budget's cold columns leave no room for fantasies-just stark, unyielding figures. In the budget for fiscal 1968 that Lyndon Johnson is sending to Congress this week, bound in a subdued, rust-colored cover, the priorities are baldly stated. The President calls for a sizable increase in defense spending to sustain the Viet Nam war, with a complementary slowdown-though not an actual decrease-in Great Society spending...
Ramparts is slick enough to lure the unwary and bedazzled reader into accepting flimflam as fact. After boasting that the January issue would "document" that a million Vietnamese children had been killed or wounded in the war, it produced a mere juggling of highly dubious statistics and a collection of very touching pictures, some of which could have been taken in any distressed country. To drive the point home, the magazine recruited Dr. Benjamin Spock to write an emotional preface to the article. The doctor did not go to Viet Nam. In writing the preface, all that he knew...