Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Michigan's Governor George Romney stops in to have a few thoughts laundered by the press...
...part, Johnson spent more time than usual expounding his Administration's policies. In a ceremony during which he awarded the 19th Medal of Honor of the Viet Nam war, he replied to Morton's charges that he had been "brainwashed"-a usage that must have warmed George Romney-by the military-industrial complex into seeking a solely "military" solution to the impasse in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We have also had to face the hard reality that only military power can bar aggression and make a political solution possible...
Sympathy from Romney. California embraced Medicaid early and enthusiastically but changed its name to Medi-Cal. Now it threatens to become Medi-Lo-Cal. In mid-August, California Health and Welfare Administrator Spencer Williams ordered a $210 million cut in Medi-Cal outlays to keep them within the state budget. Biggest cuts would have been in non-emergency surgery, length of hospital stay, drug bills and dental care. But a superior court judge declared the cutbacks illegal. Governor Reagan appealed, and the State Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in about a month. Meanwhile, Reagan has threatened those...
Against this backdrop, Reagan invited eight Governors to confer with him in San Francisco on Medicaid. Only Michigan's George Romney found it politic to attend, briefly, for the final session. Reagan told assembled health and welfare officials: "Unless Medi-Cal is revised and revamped, it not only can but most assuredly will bankrupt our state." California has a higher proportion of its population on welfare-though not necessarily of the medically needy-than New York State...
...Romney, who said Thursday he has not decided whether or not to seek the GOP presidential nomination, made several stops yesterday on the next to last leg of his 20-day tour of America's urban areas. He met with urban experts at Brandeis, Boston College, and Boston University, informally addressed a crowd of about 100 Brandeis students who gathered in the rain to see him, and said at a press conference that the nation would have to get back to "fundamental American principles" in human relations and in belief...