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...political appointees, and only two are lawyers. Opposition to the plan quickly welled up among Legal Services' 2,000 salaried lawyers, most of them young activists. In addition, officers of the American Bar Association and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association deluged OEO Director Donald Rumsfeld with embarrassing questions...
However, after word reached reporters that Blumenthal had refused the job because he did not feel he could defend Administration policy in Southeast Asia, Donald Rumsfeld, director of the. Office of Economic Opportunity, explained that Blumenthal 1) had not really turned the job down; 2) had turned the job down for nonpolitical reasons; 3) had never been offered the job anyway...
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...
...oval office seemed to have been selected to erase that image of insensitivity and show the President is indeed listening to all sorts of people. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his domestic concerns had a hearing before the Chief, as did George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Donald Rumsfeld, Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Alexander Heard, the President's temporary new adviser on campus affairs...
Within hours, the White House was summoning department heads for an unusual executive session of the Cabinet set for 3 p.m. Tuesday. No staff aides were invited. Attendance was held to 15: Nixon, Mayo, the twelve department chiefs and Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Normally, Cabinet meetings last 90 minutes or less. This one was to take three hours and 15 minutes...