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...worked longer or harder for Senate passage of President Nixon's welfare-reform legislation than Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff-even though Ribicoff had drawn up a somewhat different bill of his own.* As Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Kennedy Administration, Ribicoff developed expertise on the subject that is respected by his colleagues, and his leadership seemed vital to the bill's slim chances for favorable action this year. Amazingly, however, until last week no important White House official had even talked to Ribicoff about the matter. Instead, HEW offended him by releasing...
...Irked, Ribicoff announced that he was no longer going to lead the fight for the bill, charging that the Administration did not seem interested in its own program. Aware that Ribicoff might well be the key to passage, Nixon quickly telephoned the Senator to assure him that he did indeed want it passed. HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson and Presidential Adviser John Ehrlichman called on Ribicoff to seek a compromise on their different approaches to reform, whereupon a pleased Ribicoff announced that "I'm enlisted in this fight for the duration...
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...
...called "the hottest mimeograph machine in town," and sometimes he is led to excesses, as when he suggested earlier this fall that he would be willing to "crawl on my belly" to the Paris Peace Talks to gain release of U.S. P.O.W.s. More recently, together with Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, he called in the Senate for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and for Irish reunification, a proposal that earned him the distinction of being condemned by the British Prime Minister...
...parallel path to the future could be the enactment of a farsighted bill that has been proposed for the last two years by Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Although it has twice been defeated, on this year's vote it was supported by every potential Democratic presidential nominee in the Senate. After four years of pilot testing and planning, Ribicoff's plan would give every metropolitan area?North or South?a deadline of ten years to make minority representation in each of its schools equal to at least half the percentage of minority-group students in the area...