Word: weaverization
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...good Lord have mercy on you," said Lyndon Johnson-and, under the circumstances, the benediction seemed appropriate. Johnson was speaking to the man he had just nominated as head of the new Department of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver, who will be the first Negro to sit in the Cabinet. Weaver, 58, will preside over the Federal Government's first comprehensive attack on the problems of metropolitan areas, which now contain 70% of the nation's people, are expected to double in population by the end of the century. If he takes his job seriously, even...
...Prejudice. Patience and fortitude he has. The department was first proposed in 1961 by John Kennedy, who announced his intention of appointing Weaver to the job. Congress balked twice, partly because it did not like the idea and partly because it was not ready for an integrated Cabinet. Lyndon Johnson finally got the bill through last summer-without saying who would lead the new department-and then gave every indication of not having made up his mind. He signed the bill on Sept. 9, and the department came into being on Nov. 9. While Weaver continued to head the Housing...
...atmosphere on Capitol Hill has changed since Weaver was first talked of for the job. Democrats, mostly Southerners, had charged earlier that Weaver would use his office primarily to promote racial integration in housing. Senator A. Willis Robertson, the Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Banking
Committee that must consider Weaver's nomination, voted against Weaver's appointment even to the HHFA five years ago. Now Robertson-and others-predict easy confirmation for Weaver. "I thought he was going to be prejudiced," says Robertson. "But I have seen no evidence of prejudice...
...weaver said, Speak to us of Clothes...