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...which definitely turned off Florida's Governor Claude Kirk Jr. "Kids are taught patriotism and morality in the classroom," he told a civic club audience, "but when they get home they see a television set with this dirty old lady...
...black students, ended their sit-in, saying they had won tentative agreement to their demands. > Langston University was roiled by the firing of President William H. Hale. About 450 students from the Oklahoma school, a predominantly black public campus, invaded the capitol and shouted "Pig!" at Governor Dewey Bartlett when he refused to explain the dismissal. The state regents later said Hale had been fired for "excessive drinking in public," a charge Hale denied. >At the University of Houston, an S.D.S. statement that it would "no longer tolerate" military recruiting on campus backfired. A small S.D.S. group that tried...
After that, by a vote of 45 to 40, the Senate passed a surprise amendment that Murphy tacked on to a poverty-program bill to give governors a veto over individual budget items in OEO Legal Services programs. Previously, a governor could veto the appropriation for an entire program in his state-but the OEO Director could override his veto.* "This is a disastrous piece of legislation," protested Alfred Feinberg, an OEO lawyer who heads an association called PLEA (Poverty Lawyers for Effective Advocacy). "If ultimately passed by the House, it will destroy OEO Legal Services...
Already lawyers in the South Florida Migrant Legal Services program are in trouble with Governor Claude Kirk. He threatened to veto the program when the OEO lawyers brought legal action on behalf of migrant workers against, among others, the Florida State Employment Service. In a compromise, the lawyers agreed to permit appointment to their governing board of more members who may not be sympathetic to such suits...
...most ambitious Legal Services programs: the California Rural Legal Assistance project. In three years, CRLA lawyers have won 85% of more than 35,000 cases. Their success has nourished a greater respect for law among the state's rural poor, especially Mexican Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly did not do so because OEO Director Sargent Shriver was prepared to override...