Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Senator Tower's office requested that the $2.2 million migrant-worker-program grant be given to the pro-Administration Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council as opposed to the consortium of OEO CAP agencies. DOL has already announced that the OEO groups have the best proposal. If the Development Council were to receive the grant, there would be a significant plus for the Administration, as OEO's negative voice would be silenced, and the Council's positive feelings towards the Administration could be stressed. DOL has told Tower that the grant will be awarded to Tower's choice. Tower will...
...Comanche Indian who grew up in Oklahoma speaking Comanche as her first language, Harris served on the board of directors of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO)--the government agency which dealt with the economic and political rights of minorities--for six years...
...cash crunch has less to do with inflation and recession than with indifference and resistance in Washington. C.R.L.A. is one of 269 local legal-services programs created after 1965 by the now extinct federal Office of Economic Opportunity. In OEO's heyday, its young lawyers lustily sued local authorities across the U.S. on behalf of poor clients, and smarting officials went raging to Washington to throttle the federally funded upstarts. When the Nixon Administration began dismantling the OEO during the early '70s, legal services began to atrophy. But the successes of the OEO lawyers so outweighed their excesses...
...campaigned in favor of the Marshall Plan, the United Nations, aid for veterans, as well as strong national defense. In his first term, Ford's Americans for Democratic Action rating was 13 per cent, rising to a surprising 67 per cent in 1966. But in 1967, he voted against OEO, Model Cities, and a federal rat control program--the Great Society left Gerry behind. In 1971, he was voting with congressional conservatives 87 per cent of the time, the second most ardent Nixon supporter...