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...Peace Corps, just then taking shape, appealed powerfully to his evangelistic instincts. He enlisted the support of Director Shriver and of Washington Attorney James H. Rowe Jr., a longtime Johnson friend. Wrote Rowe to Sargent Shriver, the corps' director: "If I were a young man, I think I would be content at the age of 26 to be the top assistant of the Vice President. But this boy Moyers is willing to give this up, without a backward look, so he can 'do good.' The world is full-and the Peace Corps will be-of people...
Since its inception in August 1964, the many-faceted, $2.5 billion anti-poverty program directed by Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity has experienced a predictable pattern of controversy, red tape and scandal...
...responsibility for stirring the emotions of Los Angeles Negroes to fever pitch. In a telegram that he fired off to Washington last week, Yorty declared that "one of the riot-inciting factors was the deliberate and well-publicized cutting off of poverty funds to this city," demanded that Shriver "process our programs and release our funds while we reorganize." The mayor also accused California Governor Edmund G. Brown of trying to make political hay by appointing a commission to look into the riots' causes...
...House, the bill 1) authorized an expenditure of $1.9 billion, $400 million more than the Administration requested, and 2) stipulated that any decision by a Governor to veto community action, neighborhood youth corps or adult-education programs in his state would be subject to review by Sargent Shriver, director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. The bill was fine by Senate Democrats, but the Republicans had different ideas...
...laws have been chiefly the affirmation of the Negro's constitutional rights; only now is the U.S. moving into providing greater opportunities. Sargent Shriver's poverty warriors, for example, work for the Office of Economic Opportunity; one of the newest bureaus in Washington is the Equal Economic Opportunity Commission. The thrust of Shriver's program is toward creating employment and employable people, and its experiments may give guidance in determining what U.S. society and Government will do next for the Negro. For ultimately, opportunity is a good job−a job that lets a bent-down...