Word: godbold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other national government anywhere in the world today which has washed its hands of its cities and essential industries to stand back on the sidelines like a disinterested party," declared Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, newly elected president of the mayors' conference. Contended Jacksonville's Jake Godbold: "What the Administration is giving us right now is not help but misery." John Rousakis of Savannah, Ga., charged that Administration policies were designed to "take the monkey off the Federal Government's back and put it on the back of local government...
...Ridiculous!" scoffed Jake Godbold, mayor of Jacksonville. "Idiocy!" exclaimed Robert McCabe, president of Detroit Renaissance, the city's urban revitalization organization. For once, the contentious spokesmen for the Snowbelt and the Sunbelt were agreed on something: they were outraged by the draft of a presidential report on urban policy that was leaked to the press last week in an obvious attempt to discredit it. Probably the most controversial of a package of proposals to be presented to President Carter on Jan. 16 by the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, the report calls...
Meanwhile, Sunbelt residents envisioned a second Yankee march through the South: hordes of the poor descending from the slums of the North. Fumed Jake Godbold: "The report seems to be saying, 'Let's pack them all up in buses and ship them down to the Sunbelt like refugees...