Word: shriver
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Johnson even referred to Sargent Shriver, who would head the $962 million program in a new Office of Economic Opportunity, as "my personal Chief of Staff." And Shriver, already waging the war, although he still heads the Peace Corps, sounded equally militant in an address to the National Farmers Union in St. Paul. "This new program is not an election-year gimmick," he said. "For the first time in man's history we do have the power to eliminate poverty from an entire continental nation...
That kind of passion rings bells among rank-and-file troops across the U.S., but the Administration's first big battle is pinpointed on Capitol Hill. There, Johnson & Co. will have to explain to skeptical Congressmen precisely what they plan to do-and how. All last week Shriver and various Cabinet members trooped into sessions of a House Education and Labor subcommittee to explain the package. Since the causes of poverty are diverse and interrelated, any comprehensive attack on them is necessarily complex. The programs that the bill would permit certainly are that...
...study rudimentary reading, writing, arithmetic and speech. The top half would be sent to unused military reservations for training in specific vocational skills and basic academic subjects. All would get a $30-$50 monthly living allowance and a separation payment of $50 for each month of satisfactory service. Insists Shriver: "These centers and camps will not be dumping grounds for juvenile delinquents, dope addicts or drunkards...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, yesterday urged the creation of a 10,000-member federal teaching corps as a part of the Johnson Administration's "war on poverty." Galbraith served as an advisor to Sargent Shriver's group, which outlined the Economic Opportonity Bill now awaiting Congressional action...
...Young Dems are Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Philip Hart (D Mich.), Lister Hill (D-Ala.), Clinton Anderson (D-N.M.), Frank Church (d-Idaho), and Harry Byrd (D-Va.), Paul Doulas (D-Ill.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and John McClellan (D Ark.). Three Administration officials--Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps; McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for national security affairs; and Robert F. Kennedy '48, attorney general--may also see the students...