Interviewed by TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and Correspondent Simmons Fentress, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano talked of past and present attempts to deal with the nation's enduring problem of poverty.
Q. About ten years ago, as the architect of much of the Great Society, you spoke about eradicating poverty and bringing the millennium to this country. Why didn't those masses of bills do the job?
A. We did bring about 11 million or 12 million people out of poverty between 1965 and 1969. It didn't bring any millennium, but it brought a lot of improvement. In the '60s I had a...
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