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- Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011x
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- The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing…
- Adam Clayton Powell’s role in Congress and his criticism of Shriver and the Office of Economic Opportunity; the political ramifications of dispersing federal funds without the input of local politicians; John Connally’s criticism of War on…
- Shriver's opinion that Job Corps would yield results quickly; how Shriver's work for the Chicago Board of Education guided his work in Job Corps; the idea of putting the Job Corps under the Department of Defense; LBJ's support for…
- Middle- and upper-class American fear and hostility toward the poor; closing Job Corps centers in 1968 due to budget cuts; formal evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity programs; comparison of Bill Haddad and Edgar May as head of the OEO…