Word: fiascos
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Indeed, the entire Harlem program has been a tragic fiasco. Conceived in the hope that it could improve life in the prototypical Negro ghetto, the program has stumbled and stagnated under the leadership of HARYOU-ACT. The agency, directed by Powell Henchman Livingston Wingate, originally hoped to get $118 million in federal, city and private funds for an immense three-year program. So far, it has received barely $10 million-including $3,456,096 in OEO money-and even that turned out to be more than it could account for. Close to $400,000 could not be traced, and Shriver...
...chairman of the State Committee, Doherty is supposed to avoid criticizing his party or its leaders. But the sting of last year's defeats has left him so bitter that he cannot remain alert. Remembering the ruinous interparty squabbling of the past, such as last year's Bellotti-Peabody fiasco, he blames the Democrats' failures on their lack of party discipline. If Bellotti had run for reelection as lieutenant governor, instead of challenging his own incumbent governor, both would have won impressive victories, according to Doherty...
Weaver could easily have avoided the fiasco by discussing the bill's income provisions with Congressional leaders in advance-or simply by waiting to write them until after the funds were appropriated. At any rate, Robert Weaver, hitherto considered a leading candidate to become the U.S.'s first Negro Cabinet officer as Secretary of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development, could hardly have dealt the boss a more painful blow if he had tried...
Poles Apart. Several similar resolutions have been introduced in the past three years, but they got nowhere largely because they were considered superfluous. The U.S. has long been pursuing, in word and deed, just such a policy. John Kennedy emphatically stated after the Bay of Pigs fiasco that he would not let the doctrine of nonintervention in the affairs of other hemisphere nations excuse inaction in the face of Communist aggression. Lyndon Johnson restated the policy during the Dominican crisis: "We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists...
...From the Bay of Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy learned that it is vital to our security that a President be a forceful and intelligent leader, the sole determiner of policy. The major lesson for the American people is that it is better to accept a momentary setback in prestige than risk a long-lasting loss of respect throughout the world. Kennedy best expressed this concept when he said, "What is prestige? Is it the shadow of power or the substance of power?" The Bay of Pigs was far from a total loss for the U.S., for it provided Kennedy with...