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Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, United Church Women Luncheon, 3/24/1965" (Item)
  • -FOR RELEASE UPON DELIVERY MARCH 24, 1965 -- 12:30 P• m. REMARKS BY MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON UNITED CHURCH WOMEN LUNCHEON Friends -- and, I know if the President were here, he would add -­ Allies in the War on Poverty: Thank you for your kind
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as the War on Poverty was concerned, Adam was instinctively in favor of a struggle to help people who were poor. A huge percentage of his constituents were poor. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Adam Clayton Powell’s role in Congress and his criticism of Shriver and the Office of Economic Opportunity; the political ramifications of dispersing federal funds without the input of local politicians; John Connally’s criticism of War on Poverty
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And the reasons for that are legion. G: Let's talk about your Peace Corps experience and anything in that that was applicable or critical in formulation of the War on Poverty. Say, community action ideas or anything. S: That's a huge question. There were
  • for International Development; President John F. Kennedy’s work on what would become the War on Poverty; LBJ’s reputation for wanting to help people; how Shriver heard about LBJ’s "War on Poverty;" LBJ naming Shriver as head of the War on Poverty; how Shriver
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Department and particularly the impetus for the War on Poverty as coming from the fact that a very large number of men were failing the physical and mental minimum [requirements] set up by the Selective Service system. C: I don't think that was the impetus
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Vista Graduation, St. Petersburg, Florida, 2/26/1965" (Item)
  • the economic opportunity programs being launched, none better expresses the spirit of the entire war against poverty than the VISTA operation. I am pleased to meet you VISTA graduates in person and to see you at work -- as I will later in the day. You have
Telephone conversation # 13114, transcript, LBJ and JAMES MCCROCKLIN, 6/6/1968, 12:30PM (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Press release, "Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Crow-Cheyenne Welcoming Ceremony, Tribal Community Building, Crow Reservation, 8/14/1964" (Item)
  • last January, he promised that your needs and concerns would be a primary part of the agenda concerned with the war on poverty. I assure you he has not forgotten. As you know, Secretary Udall has directed the Interior De­ partment to chart a ten-year
Press release, "Arrival Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Newark Airport, 8/12/1965" (Item)
  • spot may come, my friends, a Sandburg, a Lincoln, a George Washington Carver - - all would have been eligible for Head Start. Governor, New Jers ey was the fo:irst state to enlist in the War On Poverty. I know how much of your own leadership you have
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the recorder, how these preceded and were more significant than the legislative enactments of the 1960s. S: I think that the War on Poverty was started in the legislative branch and not in the executive branch, both as to ideas and leadership. There are two
  • Early ideas and leadership in Congress that led to the War on Poverty; getting the depressed areas bill, also known as the area redevelopment bill, passed in 1961; administration and funding of the area redevelopment programs; housing legislation
Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 3 (III), 6/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Bookbinder -- III -- 6 be considered the whole War on Poverty so therefore, in order for that to be effective, we couldn't be an agency among agencies. We had to be speaking presumably, at least nominally if not actually, in the name of the president, so
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/9/1966 (Item)
  • : Press briefing #508- Aindicated the following: "Mr. Shriver discussed with the President both the national progress of the War against poverty and the Texas tour that he is completing. The President expre ;se his great pleasure at the progress being made
Folder, "August 9, 1967 - 6:40 p.m. President's meeting with labor leaders," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 1 (Item)
  • of catastrophy are a always had prophets of doom. Some assistance versus domestic growth. for a war against aggression. abroad standard American fare. We have say that it is a matter of foreign I believe we have a responsibility and a war against poverty at home
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Report of the President which laid the groundwork for what came to be known as the War on Poverty. That work was begun in the spring of 1963 by Bob Lampman, who was and remains one of the distinguished experts in the field of income distribution. 1 LBJ
  • agency would function; the decision to put the Job Corps under the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO); the relationship between Sargent Shriver and Adam Yarmolinsky in the development of the War on Poverty task force; a Christmas 1963 meeting of cabinet
Press release, "Excerpts from Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson's Remarks at Morven, Princeton, N.J., 8/12/1965" (Item)
  • FOR RELEASE AFTER 4:00 P. M. THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1965 EXCE.RPTS FROM MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSONOS REMARKS AT MORVEN, PRINCETON, N.J. Let me say how grateful are th e President and I to you who serve on the frontlines of the war on poverty. You do
Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by the Peace Corps. I wanted a job in the international-type field in Washington. G: Do you recall the circumstances of getting involved with the War on Poverty task force? H: Yes. That, too, was accidental. I had sometime previously arranged to leave
  • Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; membership; Christopher Weeks; Adam Yarmolinsky; Sargent Shriver; structure and activities of task force Community Action; Job Corps; legislative submission
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs Annual Convention in Lexington, KY, 5/21/1964" (Item)
  • on the outskirts of hope because they are too poor. That's why Lyndon's war on poverty bill, now in the Congress, is so important to the conscience and the future of this country. MORE .. , '\ There is no magic formula, no handy ready-mix l But by training
Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the Uemocratic National Convention. Moreover, in 1964you were an active participant in Sargent Shriver's task force on the War on Poverty. To begin with, how did you happen to join up with the 1964 task force on the ~Jar Against Poverty, and what were
  • Working on the War on Poverty Task Force; JFK’s plans for “Widening Participation in Prosperity”; Economic Opportunity Bill; land reform proposal; extension service; urban vs. rural poverty; lack of support for rural communities; division
Oral history transcript, David L. Hackett, interview 1 (I), 4/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , creative new mechanisms, for how to channel the public and private sector, as well as effective programs. I think most of the programs that ultimately ended up in the War on Poverty came out of the experimental programs developed by Mobilization for Youth
  • to the programs; Shriver's work as head of the War on Poverty; congressional support for programs with immediate results; Hackett's belief that problems addressed by the OEO would have been better served by a coordinated federal effort involving more than one
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • either in the Peace Corps or in the War on Poverty. The War on Poverty had just moved over to its new headquarters in the Brown Building and we talked in a very barren comer office on the eighth floor. He had me meet people in the Job Corps and other
Oral history transcript, Edgar Cahn and Jean Camper Cahn, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --to begin writing the draft of what became "The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective," trying to analyze that experience, what the conflicts were, what the assumptions were. G: Were you doing this for the Justice Department? EC: No, this was done really
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh following through on his commitments to an unconditional war on poverty. One critic has pointed out that one month's expenditure in Vietnam equals more than the annual appropriations for OEO. Would you consider
  • ; Senator Morse; Job Corps; Nixon’s views on OEO/poverty program; Mr. Agnew’s statement; Green Amendment; TWO Project; effects of Vietnam War on war on poverty; OEO handling of budgetary requests; LBJ’s support of OEO; liaison between from OEO and White
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /oh 4. to chair the task force planning the Job Corps portion of the War on Poverty. I responded, -Look, I've been at this university only two years, and we have a number of very substantial programs just beginning. I just can't run out
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of what many people call the War on Poverty. We had, I don't know, millions of people, perhaps twenty million people with incomes less than two thousand dollars or fifteen hundred dollars at that time throughout the United States. it is now. Of course
  • First knowledge of pending legislation to fight poverty; personal interest in and involvement in legislation of this kind; LBJ and unemployment; War on Poverty; steering legislation through committee; Adam Clayton Powell as chairman; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: ADAM YARMOLINSKY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Yarmolinsky's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's start with your earliest involvement with the War on Poverty. Were you at all involved before Sargent
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, National Convention of American Home Economics Association, Detroit, Michigan, 6/24/1964" (Item)
  • the objectives of the war on poverty. One e in a while I ask myself, "What a1 n I doing here ? 11 Perhaps when I visit, it helps draw the curtain open a little more. Perhaps it gives national attention to a local problem. Perhaps i t exposes us to ourselves
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into the War on Poverty task force to begin with. M: Can you tell me that? Well, I don't really think I ever was part of it. meeting of the task force. I only attended one I think my involvement with the task force really had to do with all kinds
  • Biographical information; War on Poverty; Labor Department; President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency; Model Cities; Job Corps; Neighborhood Youth Corps; personal impressions of LBJ; Adam Clayton Powell; legislation
Folder, "January 23, 1968 - 9:46 a.m. House and Senate Committee Chairmen," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Folder, "[September 15, 1967 - Meeting with AFL-CIO Executive Council]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/18/1964 (Monday) (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 5/22/1964 (Friday) (Item)
  • Welfare and War on Poverty
President's Daily Diary entry, 12/29/1966 (Item)
  • Meeting w/ S ergeant Shriver in the living room alone They reviewed the progress of the War on Poverty during the past twelve months and discussed certain legislative matters. They discussed the He ^d Statt program in particular Bill Moyers joinedat
President's Daily Diary entry, 11/8/1966 (Item)
  • approving the War on Poverty Extensions . ^ HR 15111
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/5/1965 (Item)
  • w/ Everett Phil Potter Dirksen April 5 Monday 1965 April White House 5 1965 Monday Hon Sargent Shriver appt requested by Mr Shriver to fill the President in on some of the particular problems of the War on Poverty McGeorge Bundy Smiley
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • priorities-to education, to health, to a war against poverty, and so forth. Now, the budget does this in a limited way, but the economic report has to do it in a broader way. Now, it is only when you have what might be called a ten- year national economic
  • Employment Act of 1946, its intended and eventual uses; tax reductions of 1964; regulating the federal budget; the war against poverty and its failures; local control of education; planning in a free society; President John F. Kennedy; rising
Press release, "Remarks by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Greensboro, North Carolina, 10/7/1964" (Item)
  • . Crime in the streets can be traced to many root causes. The war on poverty strikes at these roots, so do urban renewal prog rams. Seventy percent of our p eople live in cities and 90 percent of our population growth will occur in them. 1f our cities
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but allow me to say two things. One, I left the war against poverty in I think March of 1968. In January or February, certainly by February, I already knew that President Johnson wanted me to go to France, and so I was not as closely connected to every
  • ; bypassing local government to fund War on Poverty programs federally; Shriver’s reluctance to turn Head Start over from OEO to another government department; the work-study program; how Head Start became a year-round program that involved parents; attacks
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • committed because he sees the thing in an ideological framework in which Israel is part of the defense against the Soviet Union. G: Interesting point. Let's shift to domestic policy and the War on Poverty. A: I was on the Council of Economic Opportunity
  • in 1966 and Robert Kennedy’s involvement; a connection between U.S. support for Israel and Jewish support of Vietnam; LBJ’s Middle Eastern policy; the War on Poverty; the HARYOU-Act Program; Patrick Moynihan’s report on the black family; War on Poverty’s
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1980 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. BAKER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 2 G: Mr. Baker, l e t ' s start today on the War on Poverty task force. Let me just ask you how you got
  • Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Almost nil? L: I had heard from informed citizens, idea of what the war on poverty was, period. it. I was interested in the idea, but I hadn't followed At RAND I had been working on international and military and arms control matters. I was feeling
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , especially in the early years of OEO, focused on the charge that war on poverty was a handout effort. How much Congressional opposition stems from a kind of ideological predisposition which opposes the basic concepts underlying the war on poverty? H: I
  • 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.