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continued to contribute to the programs as well. In Georgia, for example, in 1970, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs conducted a fund-raising campaign that brought in over $20,000 “to help Georgia schools provide lunches to the needy.” Food and Nutrition News, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, April 1970. In NCJW Washington D.C. Office, Box 385, School Lunch Program Correspondence, July 1970.
    62. Perryman, “School Lunch Programs,” in Mayer, U.S. Nutrition Policies, 219.
    63. All from Senate Agriculture Committee, 1969, p. 218.
    64. T. W. Marz to Richard B. Russell, October 23, 1969, and Richard B. Russell to A. J. Shaw, November 3, 1969, Richard B. Russell Collection, Series IX B, Box 7, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.
    65. Clipping from the Riverside County, Calif., Press Enterprise, April 12, 1969, in Senate Select Committee, Part 11, July 9–11, 1969, p. 3615.
    66. Ibid., 3409–10.
    67. Ibid., 3534–35.
    68. “Impact Reports: Everyman’s Guide to Federal Programs,” vol. 1, no. 1, p. 10, in Senate Select Committee, Part 11, Appendix.
    69. Ibid., Part 10, May 14, June 27, 1969, pp. 3159–60.
    70. Ibid., Part 11, July 9–11, 1969, pp. 3534–38.
    71. Ibid., 3451.
    72. Ibid., 3464.
    73. House Committee on Education and Labor, 1968, p. 242.
    74. The Agriculture Department was slow to force states to comply either with free lunch requirements or food stamp outreach. In the case of food stamps, it took a series of court actions to force the department to hire state coordinators monitor local programs. See Maurice MacDonald, Food, Stamps, and Income Maintenance (New York: Academic Press, 1977), 17.
    75. “Panel Finds Half of Poor Still Hungry,” NYT, October 7, 1971.
    76. Mrs. Norma Goff to President Johnson, March 16, 1966, White House Central Files, GEN AG 7–2, Box 11, 4/1/66–44/66, LBJ Library.
    77. John Gehn to President Johnson, March 8, 1966, White House Central Files, GEN AG 7–2, Boc 11, 3/23/66–3/21/66, LBJ Library.
    78. Jerry Peterson to President Johnson, February 18,1966, White House Central Files, GEN AG 7–2, Box 11, 3/18/66–3/22/66, LBJ Library. Box 11 contains numerous files filled with letters from school administrators across the country.
    79. Richard Russell to A. J. Shaw (Deputy Office of the County Council, Modesto, Calif.) November 3, 1969, Richard Russell Papers, Series IX:B, Box 7, Folder: The School Lunch Program, January 1969–November 1969, Richard B. Russell Collection, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens.
    80. Senate Subcommittee on Employment, 153.
    81. United States Congress, House Subcommittee on Education, Committee on Education and Labor, Hearings on Bill to Establish Program of Nutrition Education, 93rd Cong., 1st Sess., March 8 and July 11, 1973, p. 22.
    82. Ibid., 30.
    83. Quoted in Gilbert Y. Steiner, The Children’s Cause (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1976), 176, 189.
    84. See ibid., 193. Steiner says the ASFSA “marshaled an army of “little old ladies in tennis shoes” to oppose the program’s redirection (193).
    85. Patricia L. Fitzgerald, “Grassroots and Growing Pains,” School Foodservice and Nutrition, May 1996.
    86. Steiner, The Children’s Cause, 178. In 1969 the National School Lunch Program as well as the Food Stamp Programs were put under the authority of the newly created Food and Nutrition Service.
    87. Committee on School Lunch Participation, Their Daily Bread, 126.
    88. United States Congress, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Hearings on the School Lunch Program, 92nd Cong., 1st Sess., September 16 1971, p. 21.
    89. Ibid., 21.
    90. On compromises in public policy, see Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic