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...OEO spokesmen and liberal legislators replied heatedly, alleging that Moynihan had an elitist and calculating approach to poverty programs...
Moynihan's penchant for controversyspread to members of his staff, Richard D. Blumenthal '67, who went to Washington with Moynihan as an aide, was offered the job of director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and OEO community organizing project. Ninety-one members of Congress-some of whom had criticized VISTA as a group of "troublemakers"-signed a petition to Nixon urging him to withdraw the offer...
...encouraged "maximum feasible participation" in the implementation of projects rather than in the planning stages. Any hope for success of the CAP throughout the country was buried by these new guidelines. The bureaucratic morass created in various local agencies, a general mismanagement of funds by the executives of the OEO, a lack of sensitivity of the community organizers to the principles of real organization-all of these factors which merely debilitated the CAP before the 1967 directive seemed trivial in comparison to the change of policy which took away any power the poor might have...
...have a role in the decision-making process of institutions directly affecting their lives, such as new community organizations, the goals of CAP drift into the realm of the illusory. The clement of power rests at the heart of any discussion about CAP. Even if funds from the OEO or other governmental agencies stand behind the proposols of nationwide CAP's, the poor of each community must have the power, or some power, to decide how those funds will be utilized...
When Donald Rumsfeld, the present director of the OEO, assumed his position at the end of 1969, he stated "The OEO is not the War on Poverty" in an attempt to "de-sloganize the agency." Rumor has it at least among CAP agencies in the Boston area that many local programs will not be refunded for 1971. Most positive aspects of the program have already been consumed by the negative elements of mismanagement. However, if the CAP agencies continue they might benefit from an application of Presidenta Nixon's espoused philosophy concerning the poor, delivered on February...