Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next to the shooting war in Viet Nam, the spending war against home-front poverty is perhaps the most applauded, criticized and calumniated issue in the U.S. By way of defending his generalship in the Great Society, Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), marched last week on the House poverty subcommittee. He had expected a firing squad but got a bombardment of bouquets instead. The bullets came later...
...Shriver's official mission was to present the Administration's request for $1.75 billion in poverty funds for the year beginning July 1. One of Washington's smoothest Capitol Hill performers, Shriver adroitly combined a recitation of OEO's concrete achievements with candid admissions of its faults. His interrogators responded with such phrases as "a great public servant" and "a domestic Westmoreland." Even the abrasive committee chairman, Adam Clayton Powell, oozed approbation. "How many stars do we give the general?" asked Powell. "One, five, six? Let's give...
...America Is Winning." With justifiable pride, Shriver pointed to Project Head Start, which has brought a touch of civilization to 600,000 preschool slum children, as OEO's most successful effort. He noted that 300,000 volunteers have enlisted in the poverty war, and that the campaign has "reached more than 3,000,000 poor people directly" with jobs, training and other services. "America," he said, "is winning the war on poverty...
Singer Harry Belafonte told the guest of honor: "We're going to miss you, baby." And Sargent Shriver, 50, is going to miss his baby too. Having left the Peace Corps to devote full time to the domestic war on poverty, he said goodbye on the corps' fifth anniversary at a "Shriver a Go-Go Party." As 1,500 corpsmen and friends jammed into the ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, Shriver assured everyone that things would still be jumping under new Director Jack Hood Vaughn. "Jack's a fighter," said Sarge...
...Weaver: "There are certain functions which must in time be placed in the department. The problem now is to identify these and encourage the Administration to sponsor reorganization plans to bring them about." One big, politically sensitive area that will almost certainly be identified as HUD property is Sargent Shriver's poverty-oriented community action program...