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LECTURE PLATFORM
During a budget cycle of “continuing resolutions,” the Johnson administration’s War on Poverty went underfunded. As poverty programs closed or relied on private charity to continue to function, Herblock compared Congress, with its perquisites and wealth as callous and cruel in its attitude toward the poor. He later wrote, “Many [in Congress] seemed to feel they could save the economy by socking the poor, whatever the ultimate cost to the nation in lives and dollars.”
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Lecture Platform, 1967. Published in the Washington Post, November 14, 1967. |