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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...
...Terkel, the consensus is not out of line with what most readers, North, South, East or West, already feel in their guts: that race relations and perceptions of them are more confusing and emotionally complex than they were in the hopeful days of the civil rights movement and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs...
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...