United States Office of Economic Opportunity - Definition and Overview

The United States Office of Economic Opportunity was a division of the Executive Branch of the United States government concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs relative to the provision of opportunities for economic advancement.

Under the president Nixon administration, the Office was headed by Donald Rumsfeld. Dick Cheney was under Rumsfeld's tutelage. They were in charge of carrying forward the War on Poverty.

President Nixon abolished the Office in 1974, in his last year as president.

Directors 1965-1974

• R.Sargent Shriver 1965-1968
• Bertrand Harding 1968-1969
• Donald Rumsfeld 1969-1971
• Frank C Carlucci 1971-1972
• Philip V Sanchez 1972-1973
• Arvin J. Arnett 1973-1974

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