Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell

Title:

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell

Number of Pages:

26

Description:

Relationship with Shriver; Shriver leaving OEO; charge that OEO indulged in illegal lobbying practices; Shriver-Adam Clayton Powell relationship; opposition to the program; MLK; Poor People’s Campaign; program for auditing grantees; influence of BOB on OEO policy; contact between OEO and CEA; cost of living formula; OEO consulting with critics; Office of Public Affairs; press releases statement; view of quality of OEO Personnel; 1966 Shriver’s statement to Congress regarding abolishing poverty in ten years; failure of OEO to coordinate total anti-poverty effort; charge that anti-poverty war raised expectations of poor without providing for means to fulfill their expectations.

Contributor:

Harding, Bertrand M. (Bertrand Morrison), 1919-2002

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Bertrand Harding

Subject:

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details