"We intend," said President Johnson last week, "to help only those who help themselves." Toward that end, he sent two messages to Congress proposing experimental programs that represent a realistic new approach to the disparate problems of decaying cities and poverty-straitened rural areas.
The promise of increased federal financing is aimed at encouraging local authorities to initiate their own long-range planning, mobilize their own resources and cooperate with their neighbors to remedy their ills. As one Administration official put it: "Human and physical planning cannot really proceed down two lines; they are components of a closely related development process. In these...
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