Bert Harding's involvement in the task force created to analyze the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); Sargent Shriver's management skills; OEO's efforts to enlist support for 1967 legislation; Edith Green and Joe Waggoner's involvement in the Community Action Amendment giving mayors more control; Joe Loftus' article about the "Green amendment;" Green's efforts to have quotas for female positions in the Job Corps; changes in OEO, including the idea that OEO should give control of its programs to other departments; Senator Joseph Clark's job creation bill; Roman Pucinski's amendment to the Job Corps bill; George Reedy's assessment of Franklyn Johnson's work; leadership in the Job Corps; the Labor Department's attitude toward Job Corps; early problems within Job Corps; contrasting Job Corps conservation centers and training centers; the decision to close some Job Corps centers in 1968; governors involvement in creating Job Corps centers in their states.
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Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-mccarthyg-19810929-2-99-47