Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMMUNITY ACTION. Shriver has called this organization "the boldest of OEO's inventions" and "the business corporation of the new social revolution." As Congress framed the Community Action Program, it was to run local projects "with maximum feasible participation of residents of the areas and members of the groups served." Generally, that has worked out to mean that residents of poor neighborhoods occupy 30% of the seats on city anti-poverty boards. Initially, these representatives were supposed to be elected, but after fewer than 1% of the eligible voters turned out in Los Angeles, 2.7% in Philadelphia...
...Cleveland, slum dwellers organized, marched on city hall and left dead rats on the steps to dramatize their demand for better housing. In Washington's Lafayette Square across from the White House, 90 Mississippi Negroes pitched tents to publicize their own pitiable housing situation. In Syracuse, an OEO-financed group sent jeering squads to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his 1964 re-election campaign, used poverty funds to bail out demonstrators. When their funds ran out, they sent a 25-man delegation to besiege Shriver for more, and when he turned them down, they went to the White...
...their national convention last June, the mayors even gave serious consideration to a resolution condemning the OEO for "trying to wreck local government by setting the poor against city hall." Though it was rejected, Washington got the message. "We never said that the poor need to control the programs," said Shriver. "But neither should city hall nor the welfare agencies. No group should have complete control. It must be shared." Indeed, Shriver has held up funds from Los Angeles and Chicago because the poor were poorly represented on the boards, and has threatened to cut off others unless they give...
...well-to-do colonial Maryland family, Shriver does not consider himself wealthy, though he hardly has to scrimp. He rents a 30-acre estate in Rockville, Md., called "Timberlawn," just bought a house near the Kennedy summer compound in Hyannis Port for something under $200,000. As OEO director he earns $30,000, insists on better-than-average salaries for his staff- 23 top aides make more than $20,000, 40 others earn $15,000 or more. Though this has led to cracks about the "sweet smell of poverty," Shriver reasons that it takes good money to get good...
...stumbled and stagnated under the leadership of HARYOU-ACT. The agency, directed by Powell Henchman Livingston Wingate, originally hoped to get $118 million in federal, city and private funds for an immense three-year program. So far, it has received barely $10 million-including $3,456,096 in OEO money-and even that turned out to be more than it could account for. Close to $400,000 could not be traced, and Shriver's OEO turned off the federal spigot for five weeks while HARYOU launched an audit under the supervision-naturally-of Livingston Wingate. As a result, North...