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...What kind of man is Cornell President James Perkins? He wants to negotiate when they spit at him, when he is kicked and robbed. Truly, this is obscene. Is there not a courageous man left in this country, somewhere? I hunger for the sight of a moral man, a man of integrity, principle and reason. But all we meet are squeaking sponges and hardened arteries. Capitulation is called negotiation; absence of all principle, reason. Irrational whim is youthful idealism, the hairy savage a student with commitment. But the professors and administrators, who have fed and reared the monster by compromise...
...hungry cynics. Last week President Nixon took note of the paradox of having 11.5 million people verging on starvation in what is glibly known as an affluent society. It was a marked turnabout for the President, who only days before was reportedly anxious to postpone any organized assault on hunger for at least a year. "That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable," said Nixon. "The moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time...
...this year. In March, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch, together with Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, submitted the food-stamp proposal to the President. Fine, said Nixon, but where will we get the money? Though the President planned an attack on hunger in 1971, there was no room in his tight budget for the millions of dollars needed to start the program in 1970. As months passed, the hunger question became a prickly issue in the White House. Some advisers sided with Presidential Counselor Arthur Burns, who opposed any attack on hunger this...
...people favor giving free food stamps to the poor. Despite its unhappy confrontation in Los Angeles, the greatest influence on the President was the Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, whose fulltime chairman is South Dakota Democrat George McGovern. The committee's findings had made hunger so compelling a political issue that Nixon ultimately felt it necessary to ignore the economizers and submit his eleventh-hour program...
...part, McGovern thinks that even "a billion dollars a year for hunger will be less than a third of what is needed," and he promises to press for an increase. Where Nixon will get the $270 million to start the program in 1970 is still unknown. One obvious, if possibly simplistic, solution would be to make a radical revision-or excision -of agricultural subsidies. The Government now pays farmers more than $1.8 billion a year not to grow crops. That sum would go far toward easing the chronic hunger pangs of millions of Americans...