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Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • several years working as a reporter and editor, I came to Washington as a national correspondent for a large chain of newspapers, the Newhouse newspapers. I left that organization in September, 1963. At that time I had been covering the labor field
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • it was we could just forget the whole thing. And I don't mean the Community Action program~ I mean the whole Poverty Program. Sisk was swing man on the House Rules Committee and the previous year had been a reluctant dragon, and consequently held a key
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and perhaps you are as well qualified as anybody to answer this. He said that the people \'Jho had put together the incipient Community Action agencies, the Ford Foundation, r,lobilization for Youth, "grey areas" projects, [and] the President's Committee