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...House of Representatives supports HR 1, the nation will make dramatic progress toward helping poor families obtain dignity and opportunity through work training, services and income support. However, if the House of Representatives rejects Title IV of HR 1, or defeats the bill, we will be committed to perpetuation of a system that is an obsolete and demoralizing failure...
...Nixon underscored the significance he attached to the primary domestic project of his presidential term. The bill, designated the first piece of legislation introduced in the 92nd Congress, aims at the most important overhauling of the welfare system since the beginning of the dole. Its key section is Title IV, which calls for the end of the present Rube Goldbergian structure and in its place the establishment of Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, setting a guaranteed annual income of $2,400 for a family of four...
Thus it was Mills who worked out the intricacies of the formidable 687-page document, and who echoed Nixon's sentiments in an impassioned yet closely reasoned speech before his colleagues. "I must take it," Mills said, "that those of you who would vote to strike Title IV from the bill feel that the present chaotic mess is preferable to what we have in the bill." Mills' either-or proposition was enough to sway borderline Congressmen. By a vote of 234-187 the House voted down a motion to scratch Title IV from the omnibus bill, then approved...
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...president in America. With dozens of colleges looking for male leaders, his national reputation has followed three of the four steps traditionally ascribed to the rise and fall of a movie star: I. "Who's Kingman Brewster?" II. "Get me Kingman Brewster." III. "Get me a Kingman Brewster type." IV. "Who's Kingman Brewster?" A Kingman Brester type can be all things to all people. Most important, to alumni, he will keep things quiet. At a dinner last month the directors of the Associated Harvard Alumni-slavering an anticipation-asked student politicos from Faculty committees, "Would Harvard students fall...