Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity has championed the rights of the poor with one hand, while fending off attacks from local and state governments with the other. Now, Legal Services lawyers feel that they need a third hand to repel an assault from a new quarter: the OEO itself...
...OEO spokesmen and liberal legislators replied heatedly, alleging that Moynihan had an elitist and calculating approach to poverty programs...
Moynihan's penchant for controversyspread to members of his staff, Richard D. Blumenthal '67, who went to Washington with Moynihan as an aide, was offered the job of director of Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), and OEO community organizing project. Ninety-one members of Congress-some of whom had criticized VISTA as a group of "troublemakers"-signed a petition to Nixon urging him to withdraw the offer...
...have a role in the decision-making process of institutions directly affecting their lives, such as new community organizations, the goals of CAP drift into the realm of the illusory. The clement of power rests at the heart of any discussion about CAP. Even if funds from the OEO or other governmental agencies stand behind the proposols of nationwide CAP's, the poor of each community must have the power, or some power, to decide how those funds will be utilized...
When Donald Rumsfeld, the present director of the OEO, assumed his position at the end of 1969, he stated "The OEO is not the War on Poverty" in an attempt to "de-sloganize the agency." Rumor has it at least among CAP agencies in the Boston area that many local programs will not be refunded for 1971. Most positive aspects of the program have already been consumed by the negative elements of mismanagement. However, if the CAP agencies continue they might benefit from an application of Presidenta Nixon's espoused philosophy concerning the poor, delivered on February...