Word: urbanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been sharper. Rebuffed in his efforts to get the National Governors Conference to act urgently on the ghetto crisis, New York's Nelson Rockefeller, chairman of the G.O.P. Governors' policy committee, brought together seven of his moderate Republican colleagues,* all but one of them from urban states, to Manhattan for a day-long conference on what the states can do about slum problems...
...recommendations in the fields of law enforcement, education, slum rebuilding and job opportunities that would make slum life more tolerable. While eschewing any hint of political oneupmanship, Rockefeller's bold call for state action undoubtedly helped to solidify his position as the leading spokesman for the G.O.P. on urban problems and one of the few national politicians who have any real understanding of ghetto conditions...
...sides of the aisle, there was little hope that Congress-dominated by its aging, rural-oriented committee chairmen-would open up those resources without a strong push from the electorate. Yet the man in the best position to stir the American conscience, the President, seemed unusually phlegmatic about the urban crisis...
WHILE they may disagree on nearly everything else, the experts who diagnose the nation's urban ills agree that more-much more-federal money is needed if.the U.S. is ever to cope effectively with the problems of the slums. How much more? No one can say for sure. Incredibly, in the age of computerized government, the Administration cannot even offer a reasonably accurate accounting of the amount it is spending now to alleviate the malaise of the central cities...
Testifying before a Senate committee last year, then Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach officially put Government spending in the cities at $14.7 billion. In the same week, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reckoned that it actually amounted to $28.4 billion; and Lyndon Johnson, with lightning application of both old and new math, set it at $30 billion. This year, Budget Director Charles Schultze admitted to a Senate subcommittee, the Government is giving out only $10.3 billion in "federal aid payments in urban areas." Even this more down-to-earth figure is probably far too high an estimate...