Word: ribicoffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Democratic contenders have to travel to reach their party's nomination for President. The number of politicians still willing to speak out unequivocally against all antibusing moves was dwindling, but at least three persisted: Florida Governor Reubin Askew. New York Mayor John Lindsay and Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Protested Ribicoff: "If politicians continue to fan blind passions, we are lost. Busing is not the issue at all. The basic issue is whether America is going to have apartheid. I don't think we can exist on that basis...
...Administration proposals also wind through the Congress, the legal situation would remain confused. But already it was clear, protested Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff, that even the mild Scott-Mansfield amendment "serves public notice that we have given up the struggle to end discrimination." Ribicoff's own proposal has been to insist that all school districts, North and South, be racially balanced within ten years-which would require either massive busing or, as Ribicoff prefers, radically altered neighborhoods...
Fumble. Under the compromise, Ribicoff won Administration support for a trial of one of the bill's key provisions: a minimum income for working poor. Ribicoff had begun to wonder some time ago whether a vast program of supplementing the pay of low-income families should be put into effect without being tested first on a substantial scale. The White House opposed massive testing because it might cause delay. The Administration's fumble gave Ribicoff the opportunity to insist on a test. The trial would be held in sites still to be selected, and the full plan would...
...This can't be passed in the Senate unless the President pushes and shoves," said Ribicoff. "There has been a world of change in that now." Ribicoff says he would like to take credit for a clever maneuver that coaxed the President and his men to push. Actually, he was surprised-and pleased -that it worked out that...
...Ribicoff's plan is more generous than the Administration's bill. He would set the basic support level for a jobless family of four at $3,000, compared with the bill's $2,400; he would also raise the maximum income at which working families would remain eligible for welfare aid from the bill...