Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette

Connections between Community Action Programs (CAP) and the Ford Foundation; guidelines for awarding Community Action Programs grants, including the requirement that programs be in impoverished areas; efforts to disperse grants fairly and broadly; outreach to encourage grant submission; congressmen, such as Carl Perkins and Adam Clayton Powell, getting involved in grant applications; mayors' involvement in CAP; problems with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley; White House involvement in CAP; the relationship between LBJ and Sargent Shriver, especially relating to CAP; the difference between Hispanic and African American community groups; Ted Berry as head of CAP; Shriver's staff meetings; the role of the War on Poverty Office of Inspection and William Haddad as its chief as compared to his successor, Edgar May; the differences between successful CAPs and those that failed; why it was difficult to monitor and/or evaluate CAPs in the first two years; accusations of waste and fraud in CAPs; efforts to avoid mismanagement of funds; Head Start's incorporation into CAP; administrative problems with Shriver and the Office of Economic Opportunity; Shriver's requirements that slowed the application process; the Head Start Child Development Group in Mississippi; the high level of organization and staffing that made CAP largely successful and introduced innovative ideas.