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Louis Lyons shaped the program into this fraternal institution; Dwight E. Sargent, his successor as Curator and editor of Nieman Reports, has made few changes. Sargent is a tightlipped, businesslike man, a different type entirely from his extroverted predecessor. A Nieman Fellow in 1950-51, he is a graduate of the editorial room, not th city desk; and his preoccupation with precision and organization betrays his background...
...first act, Lyndon marched in with Sargent Shriver and Jack Hood Vaughn, his nominee to succeed Shriver as head of the Peace Corps (see following story). That ceremony was swiftly followed-all in the White House-by Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's resume of Johnson-proposed constitutional amendments, Robert McNamara's rundown of defense expenditures, a discussion of tax revision by Treasury Secretary Fowler, and brief appearances by House Speaker McCormack, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield and Vice President Humphrey...
...Sargent Shriver," said Washington wags last week, "is only a corporal now." Shriver had not exactly been demoted, since he had been pleading for six months to be relieved of one of his two jobs. Finally, Lyndon Johnson decided that Shriver, who had been director of the Peace Corps since its inception in 1961, should now devote full time to the 16-month-old Office of Economic Opportunity, which he has also headed from the start...
...left the Defense Department in 1964 to assist Sargent Shriver in organizing the war on poverty. Yarmolinsky was scheduled to be Shriver's assistant once the poverty program had received Congressional approval...
...recent report on the anti-poverty program, the U.S. Conference of Mayors charged that lack of "coordination" has "caused serious concern among those who have worked hard to develop umbrella-type agencies at the local level"-a not-so-subtle hint that the bosses want less interference from amateurs. Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, is not about to abandon the concept of participation by the poor, not only because it is the law, but also because of his conviction that politicians and the deprived can work constructively together-as they have done successfully in Detroit, Cincinnati...