Word: paesanos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evangelist. Back in Washington he made time with the representatives of the National Federation of Italian-American Organizations (Paesano Frank Sinatra is also a Humphrey booster) and got long and loud applause from a U.S. Chamber of Commerce group of 1,200. He criticized "unbelievably high deficits" in the federal budget, charged that the "present welfare system all too often fails both the test of compassion and the test of efficiency." The War on Poverty is not the Office of Economic Opportunity, he said. "The War on Poverty...