Office of Economic Opportunity

The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States president Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda. It was established in 1964 as an independent agency and renamed the Community Services Administration (CSA) in 1974.

The Richard Nixon administration attempted to dismantle the agency in 1973. However, this effort was not wholly successful. It would ultimately then be dismantled in 1981 by the Ronald Reagan administration, as it was moved into the Department of Health and Human Services and renamed the Office of Community Services, with most of its programs continuing to operate.

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