Word: shrivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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, Pittsburgh...
Nevertheless, the Administration has been caught in angry crossfire between warring city factions, and Poverty Czar Shriver is under pressure from President Johnson to calm the storm. Two weeks ago, Shriver killed a controversial research project that OEO had financed at Syracuse University. The program, aimed at encouraging the poor to promote their own interests more vigorously, was canceled after federal funds were used 1) to transport mobs to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his re-election campaign, and 2) to bail demonstrators out of jail. Declared Walsh: "This program from its inception has tried to promote class warfare...
...letter, Shriver quotes the section of the original Peace Corps Act that forbids volunteer exemptions from military service. Shriver notes, however, that draft boards have consistently granted volunteer deferments in the "national interest", similar to those granted students...
...addition, Shriver says that sentiment does exist for a peace-time exemption from military service for people who have served in the Peace Corps...
Although he does not personally support such an exemption in the letter, Shriver speculates that "perhaps now that the Peace Corps has been in operation for more than four years, it might be appropriate for the Congress to review the question of whether a different policy from that expressed in the Peace Corps Act should be followed...