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John Tower Speech to Indiana State College about Fight Against Poverty in America, Mar. 25, 1965

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Speech; Decline of poverty; Federal bureaucracy versus individual responsibility; Private initiatives to fight poverty; Poverty Bill; White Citizens Council; NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]; Welfare and education programs; Poverty statistics; Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; VISTA anti-poverty program.21 p.
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  1. Economic Assistance, Domestic
  2. Government
  3. Government And Law Politics Speeches
  4. Government Policy
  5. Politics And Government
  6. Poverty
  7. Public Welfare
  8. Speeches, Addresses, Etc., American
  9. Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925 1991
  10. United States

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