In doing so we will be reflecting this Administrations belief that the Model Cities Program can show us how to redeem the American city. It is certainly clear that this Nation. in spite of an increasingly heavy investment In our cities. has not given enough. either in quantity or in quality. to make the changes desired. It has not been enough to provide what the President called: "cities of spacious beauty and lively promise. where men are truly free to determine how they will live." More than half a century ago. the Danish immigrant reformer. Jacob Riis. wrote of the American slums and their people that. In his words. "they are the victims. not themasters. of their environment. and it is a bad master.
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