ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964 S. 3164 NATION'S WAR ON POVERTY S. 2908 ENGAGING IN PERNICIOUS POLITICAL ACTIVITIES S. 3139 ACTION PROGRAMS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES SENATE EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 3164 NATION'S WAR ON POVERTY S. 2908 S. 3139 ACTION PROGRAMS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES JUNE 21, 22, 23, AND 24, 1966 Printed for the use of the U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1966 65-922 O COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE LISTER HILL, Alabama, Chairman WAYNE MORSE, Oregon JACOB K. JAVITS, New York RALPH YARBOROUGH, Texas WINSTON L. PROUTY, Vermont JOSEPH S. CLARK, Pennsylvania PETER H. DOMINICK, Colorado JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia GEORGE MURPHY, California HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., New Jersey PAUL J. FANNIN, Arizona CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island ROBERT P. GRIFFIN, Michigan STEWART E. MCCLURE, Chief Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT, MANPOWER, AND POVERTY JOSEPH S. CLARK, Pennsylvania, Chairman JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia WINSTON L. PROUTY, Vermont CLAIBORNE PELL, Rhode Island JACOB K. JAVITS, New York EDWARD M, KENNEDY, Massachusetts GEORGE MURPHY, California GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin ARNOLD NEMORE, Professional Staff Economist CONTENTS CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES JUNE 21, 1966 Hon. Edward M. Kennedy, a U.S. Senator from the State of Massachusetts- Sargent Shriver, Director, Office of Economic Opportunity, accompanied by Bert Harding, Deputy Director; Don Baker, General Counsel ; J. A. Kershaw, Assistant Director for Research, Programing, Planning and Evaluation; and Robert Cassidy, Deputy Director of Management ---- Hon. Harrison A. Williams, Jr., a U.S. Senator from the State of New Hon. W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor; accompanied by Stanley Ruttenberg, Assistant Secretary of Labor; Jack Howard, Administrator, Neighborhood Youth Corps; and Mark C. Battle, Deputy Administrator, Mitchell Sviridoff, president, National Association for Community Devel- opment; accompanied by John Bullitt, director, New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity; and Wallace Edgerton, executive director, Na- Hon. John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; ac- companied by Ralph K. Huitt, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Legislation; Lisle C. Carter, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Individual and Family Services; and Ellen W. Winston, Commissioner of Welfare----- Hon. George A. Smathers, a U.S. Senator from the State of Florida Theodore Voorhees, president, National Legal Aid & Defender Associa- tion; Orison S. Marden, president-elect, American Bar Association; Revius 0. Ortique, Jr., president, National Bar Association; John W. Cummiskey, vice president, National Legal Aid & Defender Associa- tion; and Lowell R. Beck, staff members, Amercan Bar Association; Richard Fulton, United Business Schools Association, presenting the state- ment of Harrison Myers, Jr., Sawyer School of Business, Los Angeles, Alfred R. Seigle, chairman, board of directors, Crusade for Opportunity; Rev. Charles Fahey, assistant director, Catholic Charities, Syracuse, N.Y.; Mrs. Laura Reed, chairman, Westside Neighborhood Board ; Miss Evelyn Price, chairman, Eastside Neighborhood Board; Rev. Louis Walker, chairman, Tallman Neighborhood Board; and Mrs. Minna Buck, acting director, Crusade for Opportunity; comprising a panel---- |