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  • Contributor > Hayes, Frederick O'Reilly, 1923-2002 (remove)
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Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Opportunity (OEO); Robert Kennedy's and the Justice Department's involvement in drafting bills for community action programs; the Bureau of the Budget's response to CAP; White House support for community action; the assumption that CAP would work within local
  • , the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, did Robert Kennedy have any active role in the planning of the Community Action Program? H: Dick Boone knows more about it than I do. My impression is that Kennedy played an important role in getting the idea
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the program was on the day that Kennedy was assassinated. So that it began in 1963. I was with the program from the time that it was enacted and funded, and left in September 1966. G: You were there through an awful lot of certainly the formative period