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90. Samuel Yette to OEO Staff, Memorandum on “Operation Dixie,” 1967, OEO Records, OCR, Director’s Records, Alphabetical File, 1964–1969, NA. 91. Ibid. 92. Austin American-Statesman, September 8, 1966, in Ralph Yarborough Papers, Department Files, Executive Office of the President, 1967, Box 3w293, CAH-UT. 93. Ibid. 94. Ibid. 95. Ibid. 96. Ibid. 97. Ibid. 98. Ibid. 99. Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement, 195. 100. Theodore M. Berry, “CAP Instruction, Responsibilities of Antipoverty Employees in Regard to Unlawful Demonstrations, Rioting, and Civil Disturbances,” memorandum, April 12, 1968, OEO Records, Office of Operations, Training, and Technical Assistance, Subject File, NA. 101. Ibid. 102. Ibid. C h a P t e r N I N e 1. King Papers Project, “Poor People’s Campaign” (Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, n.d.), http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/ kingpapers/article/poor_peoples_campaign/. 2. Bertrand Harding interview by Steve Goodell, November 25, 1968, transcript, Scripps Library, Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia. 3. Jeffrey A. Krames, Rumsfeld’s Way: Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick (New York: McGraw Hill, 2002), 26. 4. Harding interview by Goodell. 5. Ibid. 6. In Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement, 79. 7. Ray Pearson to John Connally, August 7, 1967, John Connally Papers, Box 25, Series 38, LBJL. 8. John Herbers, “Riot Inquiry Seeks Lawless Elements,” New York Times, November 2, 1967, 1A. 9. Ibid. 10. “Houston Militants Took over Poverty Unit, Senators Told,” Baltimore Sun, November 2, 1967. 11. T. L. (Tim) Parker to Francis Williams, June 27, 1968, OEO Records, Southwest Regional Office Records, CEOB, Houston File, NASWR. 12. Ibid. 13. Ibid. 14. Ibid. 15. Blum, Years of Discord, 173. 16. Dallek, Flawed Giant, 331. 17. Germany, New Orleans after the Promises, 8. 1 0 Notes to Pages 134–141 18. Joan Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 62. 19. Krames, Rumsfeld’s Way, 26. 20. Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered, 62. 21. Ibid., 63; Reeves, Politics of the Peace Corps and VISTA, 55. 22. Krames, Rumsfeld’s Way, 26. 23. Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered, 65. 24. Germany, New Orleans after the Promises, 280–281. 25. Jeffrey M. Berry, Kent Portney, and Ken Thomson, The Rebirth of Urban Democracy (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1993), 22–30. 26. Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement, 98, 103. 27. Stephen Ambrose, Nixon, vol. 2, 1962–1972 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), 269. 28. Blum, Years of Discord, 344. 29. Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement, 221. 30. Hoff, Nixon Reconsidered, 130. 31. Ibid.; Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement, 229. 32. Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement, 220. 33. San Antonio Archdiocese, SANYO Tenth Anniversary, 1965–1975. 34. Ibid. 35. Rodriguez, interview by the author. 36. Stryker McGuire, “Keep ‘N’ in SANYO,” San Antonio Light, October 22, 1975, 1A+. 37. Rodriguez, interview by the author. 38. Ibid. 39. Veronica Flores, “Agency’s Program Opened New Doors for Many Members,” San Antonio Express-News, October 9, 1994, 1A+; Paulette Washington, “EODC and the Neighborhood Corporations” (master’s thesis, Trinity University, San Antonio, 1971), 126. 40. Marquez, Power and Politics, 135. 41. Levitan and Johnston, Job Corps, 32. 42. Larry Howell, “A Job Corps Graduate’s Testimonial,” editorial, Dallas Morning News, January 22, 1969. 43. Ibid. 44. Ibid. 45. U.S. Senate, Closing of Job Corps Centers, Hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, 1st Session, 91st Congress, April–May 1969, 216–217. 46. Ibid. Wilson’s use of the term “Civilian Conservation Center,” which was not the official name of the New Waverly center, suggests that he still viewed the Job Corps as a modern version of the CCC. 47. Levitan and Johnston, Job Corps, 6–7, 49. 48. “Penalizing a Failure,” editorial, Dallas Morning News, April 26, 1969. 49. Reeves, Politics of the Peace Corps and VISTA, 56. 50. Texas OEO, Texas Front, 1970. 51. “About VISTA,” Vista Volunteer 5, no. 1 (January 1969): 18. 52. Texas OEO, Texas Front, 1970. Notes to Pages 141–146 1 1 [44.200.210.43] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:07 GMT) 53. Ibid. 54. In Bowsher, “VISTA in Turmoil,” 1. 55. Robert D. Thomas and Richard W. Murray, “Applying the Voting Rights Act in Houston: Federal Intervention or Local Political Determination,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 16 (Fall 1986): 91. 56. Katz, Undeserving Poor, 46. 57. Davidson, Race and Class, 234. 58. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich, x. 59. In Davidson, Race and Class, 232...