Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) has been a successful program and should not be cut from the Federal budget, witnesses told a House subcommittee yesterday at a special Boston hearing...
...explained that if the OEO poverty programs were cut, the city could not provide money to maintain their services. "Our austerity budget program [of this year] goes as far as the city can," White said. "There is little more we can do for ourselves...
Ackermann told the committee that OEO exposed the poverty problems of the cities. "We know now that we can't get along without these programs," she said. "We never would have known without OEO...
...Frank C. Carlucci, 42, a college friend of former OEO Director Donald Rumsfeld, is now Under Secretary of HEW. Rumsfeld got him to join OEO in 1969 after he had worked in Africa and Brazil as a foreign service officer. He followed Rumsfeld as OEO director, then moved to the White House in 1971 as Associate Director...
...blunder that has haunted Anderson the most involved another marginal story. Shortly before Donald Rumsfeld left the Office of Economic Opportunity to become a Nixon adviser, Anderson obtained blueprints for a lavish renovation of the OEO chief's private office. Assured by his source that the work had been completed, Anderson ran a column accusing Rumsfeld of frittering away tax dollars while the poor languished. Actually, no alteration had been started. Admits Anderson: "I had the poverty czar living in luxury. It was a terrible error-the worst mistake I ever made...