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Of his early lessons in welfare, From wrote: "Contrary to the conventional wisdom today, the War on Poverty was not a big welfare program. Just the opposite: it was an empowerment program. We hated welfare. In the Deep South, welfare was the tool of a controlling and detested white power structure." From 1981 to 1985, when he founded the DLC, he was executive director of the House Democratic Caucus, which was chaired by Representative Gillis William Long

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