Word: programs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...White House. Instead, as one aide puts it. "there is a sense of changing gears; there is a considerable mood of turning." Is the President, after his private reading of the election returns, preparing to turn in a more liberal direction? Said one: "We think our domestic program is moderate already...
First of all, there is no resident control for Cambridge Model Cities. There never has been, and there probably never will be. The program has been directed from above, like all other bureaucracies, and the overwhelming majority of the people who supposedly "run" the program have returned a verdict of massive indifference and ignorance concerning Model Cities...
They know nothing about the program, expect nothing from it, and are generally unaware of any of the numerous CDA services, with the interesting exception of the 60,000 plastic garbage bags distributed free throughout the area...
This probably is the way it ought to be. I can hold little hope for any attempt for true full-time neighborhood control over programs to serve the neighborhood. These are working class people who have neither the time, the inclination, nor the training to pilot a comprehensive program of day care or job training or youth counseling toward a desired abstract goal. Furthermore, it is always risky to turn the public purse over to a small group, telling them to help themselves...
...crucial matter here is not one of who will direct the Cambridge Model Cities program, but the more immediately relevant one of in what direction it will be directed...