Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell
Title:
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell
Number of Pages:
26
Description:
Relationship with Shriver; Shriver leaving OEO; charge that OEO indulged in illegal lobbying practices; Shriver-Adam Clayton Powell relationship; opposition to the program; MLK; Poor People’s Campaign; program for auditing grantees; influence of BOB on OEO policy; contact between OEO and CEA; cost of living formula; OEO consulting with critics; Office of Public Affairs; press releases statement; view of quality of OEO Personnel; 1966 Shriver’s statement to Congress regarding abolishing poverty in ten years; failure of OEO to coordinate total anti-poverty effort; charge that anti-poverty war raised expectations of poor without providing for means to fulfill their expectations.
Contributor:
Harding, Bertrand M. (Bertrand Morrison), 1919-2002