Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sponsoring part-time unpaid workers in addition to its regular volunteers, VISTA could claim an enormous cache of willing manpower for the OEO's integrated assault on poverty, while generating a spirit of national cooperation in the War on Poverty. (Political activity need not be the only kind of practical public service for adults in and out of college.) In so doing, VISTA would not replace organizations like Philips Brooks, any more than it would replace the Boys' Club or the Salvation Army. Instead it would collaborate with them, and strengthen them. Affiliation with a national program like VISTA would...