Discover Our Collections


  • Contributor > Cannon, William Bernard, 1920-2006 (remove)
  • Type > Text (remove)
  • Specific Item Type > Oral history (remove)

1 results

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy Task Force; comprehensive community action program; Sargent Shriver; Shriver Task Force; legislation; VISTA; drafting the bill; resident participation; planning and operation problems; regional planning; political power; Moynihan; Job Corps
  • had been talking to [Walter] Heller--this is Kennedy--and had asked Heller, who was then chairman of the Council [of Economic Advisers], as you know, to do some kind of study, to get the analysis done in essence for maybe a major presidential thrust