Word: shriver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hoax." The publicity was what nettled Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, target of the protest for not having acted on the campers' requests for $1,356,000 in housing and training grants. Said OEO Spokesman James Kelleher: "They can sit in the park until Christmas, but we're not going to provide funds for something that's a hoax...
Yarmolinsky left the Defense Department in 1964 to aid Sargent Shriver during the planning of the War on Poverty Program. He was scheduled to continue as Shriver's assistant when the poverty program received Congressional approval. At that time his appointment was dropped from the legislation in the face of strong Southern opposition...
...failures Shriver acknowledged were mostly of a local nature. He admitted that the high-minded notion of electing the poor to local community-action boards had laid a costly egg. In Los Angeles recently, fewer than 1% of those eligible voted, bringing the cost per ballot cast to $22.94. Shriver also conceded that programs in some cities had been delayed because of failure to reach agreement with local officials or plain bad judgement. In Harlem, the OEO spent $40,000 to enable Negro Playwright LeRoi Jones to stage what Shriver described-mildly-as "vile racist plays in vile gutter language...
Fuddle Factory. Shriver's main presentation over, the storm clouds closed in. The Republicans, though polite enough in the hearing room, were aggressive in presenting their own poverty program on the House floor. Proposing to allocate most of OEO's functions to other agencies, G.O.P. critics denounced Shriver's agency as a "fuddle factory," claimed they could accomplish more with $200 million less. More flak came from an unexpected source, Democratic Representative Edith Green of Oregon, who disclosed that the cost of keeping a single boy in the Job Corps for one year is $9,120-substantially...
Since it is a considerably more natural instinct, at least for politicians in an election year, to resist cuts in domestic spending, Shriver will doubtless get his $1.75 billion. As Democratic Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida observed, "We used to say we don't want any of that tainted federal money. Now we say 'tain't enough...