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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before any changes, global or minuscule, would be effected, before that first night's sleep under the nation's most august roof, the Nixons?and the Republicans?had the traditional celebrations to enjoy. At an estimated cost of $2.3 million, the highest in history (borne by the paying guests and the Washington business community), the festivities that started over the weekend with receptions, luncheons and a concert at Constitution Hall, reached a crescendo Monday night with six balls around Washington, at each of which the Nixons were to appear. G.O.P. bashes are traditionally more sedate than Democratic wingdings...
...jump from the present year's estimated total. The nation can afford this new federal spending, Johnson explained, precisely because it is so prosperous. He predicted budget surpluses of $2.4 billion for fiscal 1969 and $3.4 billion for fiscal 1970. Total defense outlays will creep up only $500 million to $81.5 billion, and the proportion going for Viet Nam will drop, for the first time, from 35.5% to 31.2%-partly because the costly bombing of North Viet Nam has been cut back sharply, partly because major base construction is now nearly complete. Administration officials were careful to say that...
...from $30,000 to $42,500 a year, those of Cabinet members from $35,000 to $60,000. (Last week the Congress approved a 100% salary boost for the President, to $200,000.) Johnson requested no new money for the U.S. supersonic transport and suggested cuts of $300 million in space spending, $540 million in farm-price supports and $120 million in foreign aid. He asked for an extra $743 million for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, mainly for its model-cities and housing-subsidy programs...
Then there was the Interior Department's executive order holding in escrow 262 million acres of Alaskan land until Congress could settle century-old claims by Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos. That same land contains the largest untapped pool of oil in the U.S., and Hickel has been accused of trying to free it for exploration by oil companies. As Governor, Hickel successfully contested the federal order, which is now before an appeals court. Last week he agreed that as Secretary he would confer with Congress before making any decision on the land...
...first task will be to rescue the party from near-bankruptcy. At one point in 1968, the Democrats were in such penurious straits that Humphrey's backers could not afford a single hour of nationwide TV. The party's debts have since swelled to more than $8 million, including more than $2 million in remaining campaign lOUs incurred by the late Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and McGovern...