Word: whalen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter to talk over," he said. His assessment was much too modest. Money underlies the family's unique position in American life, although money does not fully explain it. The Kennedy wealth, like the family's political capital, is both large and arcane. TIME asked Richard J. Whalen, Kennedy's biographer (The Founding Father), to take a fresh look at the fortune on the founder's death. His report...
...must only be considered "as a beginning." Javits added: "Congress will have to consider-perhaps on a phased-in basis-a support level of at least $3,000 for those who are unable to support themselves." Congress will have that opportunity. Three representatives-Jonathan Bingham, John Conyers and Charles Whalen-presented a new bill last week that would provide a base of $3,200 for a family of four...
Addressing the Young Republican Symposium on the Urban Crisis, Whalen charged that present federal poverty programs "discourage the poor from trying to work, to save, and to support their families." The administrative approach of an "expanding bureaucracy" must end, he declared...
...Whalen, who for twelve years before his election to Congress was chairman of the Economics Department at Dayton University, said. "We need a new approach to poverty, not just new people." He predicted however, that the Republican party probably will not include a negative income tax proposal in its 1968 platform...
State Rep. John W. Sears '52, who ran third in the recent mayoralty primary, supported Whalen, claiming that "the federal government has become the landlord" in an increasingly feudal relationship. Sears scored the Republican party's "abdication of responsibility" for the urban crisis...