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...revenue sharing with the states, and that it would squeeze merely "a nickel or two" out of the Pentagon's budget. Most of the money would have to come out of welfare as well as Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs, which run the gamut from Headstart to VISTA. Direct federal grants-in-aid to states and cities for such purposes as hospital construction and rapid-transit improvement would also be in jeopardy. Some likely candidates for deep reductions: manpower training, urban renewal and the Model Cities program...
...Appalachian Volunteers, and in 1964, with the McComb Freedom House and the Mississippi Summer Project. (He and Stokely Carmichael taught a seminar on non-violence to college students preparing for the 1964 civil rights crusade.) In 1965 he evaluated and helped improve the medical project of the Mississippi Headstart Program for the OEO. His testimony before the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor and the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor influenced critical Congressional funding for the War on Poverty in the late 1960's. The migrant health plan Congress enacted was partly his work. After the 1968 Farmington, Va., mine...
...Appalachian Volunteers, and in 1964, with the McComb Freedom House and the Mississippi Summer Project. (He and Stokely Carmichael taught a seminar on non-violence to college students preparing for the 1964 civil rights crusade.) In 1965 he evaluated and helped improve the medical project of the Mississippi Headstart Program for the OEO. His testimony before the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor and the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor influenced critical Congressional funding for the War on Poverty in the late 1960's. The migrant health plan Congress enacted was partly his work. After the 1968 Farmington, Va., mine...
Kagan yesterday said be favors day care centers but he would "like to see two years of preparation for the program." He cited the Headstart program as an example of an experiment that failed because of inadequate preparation...
...ability to comprehend them, let alone cope with them. Occasionally, Johnson's shrewd mind did grasp the moment and the need. When, after Selma, he went before Congress to vow "We shall overcome," he was genuinely moving. And some of the innovative programs he began, such as Headstart, testified to his willingness to seek new solutions. Yet all too often he answered the call of the '60s with the responses of the '30s. He too readily fell back on "Molly and the babies," on the you-never-had-it-so-good rubric. To be sure, most Americans...