Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...People want to be responsible for others," Wirtz said, and government and law must orient themselves to this fundamental truth. He called the Peace Corps a successful response to this desire...
Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz last night pleaded for a concept of government and law that would allow for a fuller sense of public participation in "the decision-making process of society...
Calling this change the "most strongly felt necessity of the time," Wirtz declared that we must seek a legal and moral ethic based "less around right than around the precept of responsibility." He delivered the Law School's annual Holmes Lecture...
...Wirtz turned to civil rights to prove his point. He said "more ground was gained last year than in the previous 100 years" in recognizing the Negro's rights, but that "every inch of it will be lost" if we do not face up to the responsibility of providing jobs for Negroes...
...Wirtz noted a trend to shift decision making "from the most representative parts of government to the least representative." Key decisions, he said, have moved from local responsibility to state, and are now moving to federal jurisdiction...