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...LATE 1960s, when Washington was still showing a degree of concern for the poor, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) hired me to help investigate housing conditions on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota. With a team of self-confessed experts I visited all 22 villages, from Two Strike to Milk's Camp, and discovered, among other this, that families there had much to endure. Many occupied dirt floor huts bereft of adequate heat and running water; some were forced to sleep, even to cook, in rusted-out car bodies. The families were virtually defenseless against the frequent...
...time, the OEO built 400 houses on the Rosebud reservation--and Nancy White Horse was as good as her word. The quilt she sent was a brilliant patchwork of red, orange and white, with a large green star at the center. Diane and I still have it, buy we do not sleep beneath it: the artwork seems to delicate, the colors too fresh, to stand nightly wear and tear. Besides, our house has central heating...
...informal network of private legal aid societies supported by charities or city funding, and on occasion by the vounteer efforts of private lawyers. Then in 1962, Lyndon Johnson launched the "War on Poverty," which created a federal Legal Services Program under the auspices of the Office for Economic Opportunity (OEO). Over the next decade, however, that program fell out of the Administration's good grace: Vice President Spiro Agnew labelled its lawyers "ideological vigilantes, and many officials in the federal government saw the program as a prime example of the "War on Poverty's" misplaced energies...
...private bar and other supporters of the program began a combined effort in the early '70s to extricate legal services from the politics of the OEO and lodge it in a separate non-profit corporation which could administer congressionally appropriated funds. In 1974 the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) opened shop...
...natty Reaganite interlopers, Howard Phillips '62, beckons me over to talk. Phillips, a bright and articulate man who helped found the Young Americans for Freedom shortly after leaving Harvard, is a former director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. He claims to have convinced Nixon to dismantle OEO but became disenchanted upon discovering that the Administration was not as committed as he to ending such federal programs. Phillips believes that federal funds are presently being used for welfare rights organizations, gay liberation, rent strikes and so forth. Most Americans are "common sense, non-ideological conservatives," he says, "They are patriotic...