Educational and professional background; work with the 1964 Task Force on Poverty under leadership of Sargent Shriver; concept of community action; Shriver’s management style in Peace Corps, task force and OEO; funding of Community Action Agency; anticipation of opposition to community action program from local political power structures; naming VISTA and Job Corps; decision to move various projects to established administration departments; Dominican Republic; Mankiewicz’s and Peace Corps members’ objection to U.S. intervention and to military’s reports.
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Citation
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-mankiewiczf-19690418-1-80-7