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...also headed the Task Force on the Cities initiated by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 and directed the Ford Foundation's public affairs program. Ylvisaker was New Jersey's first commissioner of community affairs...
Clinton's training and education prescriptions clearly have the edge. To make his ambitious programs work, however, he would have to avoid pitfalls that have haunted the Federal Government's job-training efforts since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Such problems range from runaway costs to the difficulty of predicting what skills will be in demand five years in advance...
McCarthy was introduced by IOP Director Charles T. Royer as having "changed the character and face of politics" in America. Royer referred to McCarthy's challenge to President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1968 primaries. McCarthy's campaign called for an end to expansion of the Vietnam War and eventually forced Johnson to end his reelection...
Others appearing on the Democratic ballot will be former Irvine, Calif. Mayor Larry Agran, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, nostalgia candidate Eugene J. McCarthy and Lyndon H. Larouche Jr, who is currently serving time in prison for fraud...
...first distinguished himself as a mediator in 1967, when looting and burning broke out in the ghettos of Detroit. Vance had just resigned as Deputy Secretary of Defense because of a ruptured disk. President Lyndon B. Johnson asked him to take command of the troops he was sending to quell the riots. Vance's back trouble was so incapacitating that he had to take his wife Gay with him to tie his shoelaces. His management of that crisis became a model for leaders in other cities during those long hot summers...