Rep. Adam Clayton Powell (D-N.Y.), blows a cloud of cigar smoke at a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, May 12, 1965. Powell, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, announced a victory in his campaign to increase the participation of the poor in the anti-poverty programs. In return for pledges on that point he promised fast action on a bill, which he had been holding up, to extend and expand the operation. (AP Photo/Charles Gorry)
