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Wirtz, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman and Poverty Boss Sargent Shriver are said to be anxious to leave the Government or to change jobs-though all may temporarily stay put now that Mc-Namara is leaving, simply to prevent the kind of revolving-door exodus that could hurt Lyndon Johnson in an election year...
...practice among farmers to pay field hands and migrant workers less than subsistence wages, and fail to provide such minimal accommodations as toilets and running water. After personal inspection of farm areas and migrant-labor camps, he sat down in March 1966 and wrote a 47-page proposal to Sargent Shriver, director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity...
...members of the committee are Dr. Elkan R. Blout, Harkness Professor of Biological Chemistry; Dr. F. Sargent Cheever, dean of the medical school of the University of Pittsburgh; Dr. Leonard Cronkhite, lecturer on Preventive Medicine; Dr. James P. Dixon, president of Antioch College; Dr. Seymour Kreshover, director of the National Institute of Dental Research; Dr. John B. MacDonald, former president of the University of British Columbia; Dr. Joseph Volker, dean of the Medical Center of the University of Alabama; and Dr. Joseph T. Wearn, retired dean of the medical school at Western Research University...
Considering the gloomy prospects which were held out for the poverty program six months ago, Thursday's House passage of the Johnson Administration's anti poverty bill was a significant victory. Sargent Shriver, whose skillful legislative diplomacy was a major factor in the bill's success, said the felt "almost like the Boston Red Sox." The various programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity were not scattered among other government agencies, as foes of the bill had threatened. Nor were any of the controversial programs of the OEO, such as the Job Corps eliminated...
...billion antipoverty bill, also faces a House hatchet job. Such Republican critics as Ohio's William Ayres and New York's Charles Goodell want to lop some $600 million to $800 million off the authorization, which will probably come to a vote this week. Angrily, Sargent Shriver threatened to quit as head of the Office of Economic Opportunity if Congress will not give him the funds to do his job. "It would be a delusion to the poor," he said. "I don't think it would be advisable to continue a fraud...