Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goldsmith in the 18th century, and little has happened since then to alter that unhappy condition. To most impoverished Americans, the law's personification is a landlord brandishing an eviction notice, a creditor repossessing furniture, a social worker cutting off welfare payments. Nonetheless, argues Anti-Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, the law can and should be made to protect the poor. To this end, Shriver, a Yale-educated lawyer, has been zealously promoting a pioneering program to expand legal aid to the needy...
...Harvard's Peace Corps representative, Epps is involved in the promotion of Peace Corps projects and the selection of finalists for these programs. Always at the center of controversial issues, Epps recently negotiated with Shriver in an effort to elicit deferments for members of the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps is perhaps the best example of Epps' philosophy that all forms of social change must be promoted in order to help the Negro enter the twentieth century...
...also evaluated domestic policy, saying that liberals had shown conservatives "who most of us had thought safely immune to any modern ideas, how they can have Keynes without liberalism and full employment without Shriver...
...unlikely forum was a two-day annual meeting of the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty at Washington's International Inn. C.C.A.P., which represents 125 social-welfare agencies and other groups, seeks to complement Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity with long-range planning and aid local anti-poverty groups with trained personnel and expertise...
...Step Aside." Shriver spoke the second day. He had been warned to expect hostility, and rewrote his speech to prepare for it. "I know you have got the grill," he began, "and I'm the hamburger, freshly ground yesterday and ready to be cooked today." He met the opposition head on, detailed OEO's considerable accomplishments, and expressed his own impatience with not being able to do more faster. He likened the poor to labor-union members, who must sometimes settle for less than their full demands. "The American society can't afford wildcat strikes...