Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

38

Description:

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 Shriver's desire to expand the Job Corps and addressing criticism that it grew too quickly; comparing the War on Poverty to military wars the United States has fought; Congress' rush to criticize the Job Corps; why Otis Singletary was chosen as first director of the Job Corps; Jeanne Noble and Bennetta Washington's involvement in women's Job Corps centers; Bill Kelly taking over for Ted Berry as director of Community Action and Kelly's later work in Job Corps; talking to LBJ in December 1964 to get the Job Corps budget fully funded; Shriver trying to get Mrs. Johnson to sponsor Head Start as a new innovative program; the differences between Civilian Conservation Corps participants and Job Corps students; the urgent need for education as well as sociological and psychological care and training among urban poor youth; criticism of the cost of War on Poverty programs; marketing and recruiting for Job Corps; the role of the United States Employment Office in recruiting; which demographic the Job Corps sought to help; opposition to certain Job Corps centers; Shriver's attempts to get educational institutions to run Job Corps centers; Gary Job Corps Center in Texas and John Connally's leadership there; Shriver's and LBJ's visits to Job Corps centers; Shriver's decision not to visit Job Corps centers with LBJ; a 1965 summer youth opportunity campaign; the St. Petersburg, Florida, Job Corps Center; conflict over a house bought for mentally disabled people in a middle-class Washington, D.C., neighborhood; the tendency for people to fear anyone different from themselves; general support from Congress and society for the improvement of cities, environment, crime rates, and the like.

Contributor:

Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with R. Sargent Shriver

Relation:

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Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details