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Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Perkins -- I -- 2 people when I came here. I'd get a bill to the Rules Committee similar to the old Civilian Conservation Corps to try to put the youth in the forests of the nation
  • 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, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Youth Corps, it actually passed the Senate and got through the House Committee a couple of times. S-l, I think, was the designation. The Vista program, obviously, was a modification of the National Service Corps Program, and some of the other things
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • for that special condition. Obviously, it wasn't strong enough. G: In this kind of development with the addition of the national emphasis programs and the evolution of guidelines in Community Action, has there been a tendency to take away the flexibility