Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Urban Coalition...
...first responses to the program around the country were favorable. Vernon Jordan, the National Urban League director who had criticized Carter for neglecting blacks' concerns, praised the program as an "improvement over the present system. The stress on job creation, the national minimum-income support level, the additional funds and the expansion of the current income tax credit are all positive aspects...
Last week the black leaders' pentup discontent broke out in a wave of complaints that forced the President to make an extraordinary defense of his urban policies before a black audience and later at a televised press conference. "I have no apologies," Carter gamely insisted. "We haven't done everything we would like to do, nor have we done everything that we are going to do." At the same time, he made plain that he considered much of the criticism to be outright demagoguery...
Guaranteed Jobs. Carter's problems came to the fore at the National Urban League's annual convention in Washington. The organization's executive director, Vernon Jordan-one of the President's admirers-rebuked him for not working more aggressively to improve housing for the poor and "guarantee jobs for all who can work." As Jordan explained to a reporter: "We expected Mr. Carter to be working as hard to meet the needs of minorities and the poor as he did to get out votes. But so far we have been disappointed. [He] has fallen short...
Obviously stung by the attacks, Carter appeared before the Urban League a day after Jordan's speech and vigorously defended his record, listing a series of Administration-backed proposals to provide blacks with better jobs, medical care and schooling. Afterward, the President reproached Jordan privately for starting the trouble in the first place. At his press conference, Carter said he warned Jordan that "erroneous or demagogic statements" would damage the cause of the nation's poor. Carter added that he did not look on Jordan as a demagogue, but to many commentators he seemed to be saying...