Word: systemics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have fulfilled the dream of millions. But why dp some Americans play it down by calling it a universal feat? It is the finest tribute to the most dynamic people in the world and their system...
While Nixon's relations with Congress have sometimes been clumsy, he won his toughest congressional battle to date when the Senate narrowly went along with his request for funds to start deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile system. Though he had originally planned to defer tax reform for a while, he was happy to claim some of the credit for the historic tax bill passed by the House last week...
Then he set out to make a little history of his own. Nixon has never been famous for social innovation, but he proposed fundamental reforms in the nation's welfare system. If enacted and if successful, the changes?measures liberal Democrats have often talked about ?could become the major domestic accomplishment of his Administration. In a persuasive TV presentation, he spoke of a "New Federalism" in which "power, funds and responsibility will flow from Washington to the states and to the people." And he put forward a plan for federal-state revenue-sharing that could eventually make the slogan...
...result, which Nixon labeled "a new family-assistance system" (see box opposite), is an intriguing mixture of features aimed to please different constituencies. Liberals support the idea of a federal standard for welfare and while some find the level of payments proposed by Nixon inadequate, they are happy to have the principle of federal standards established. New York Mayor John Lindsay called the Nixon proposal Washington's "most important step forward in this field in a generation." To appease conservatives, Republican Nixon spoke of "investment," of "startup costs" to get the engine of social rehabilitation going, of work as "part...
WHAT America needs now," the President told the nation last week, "is not more welfare, but more 'work-fare.' " On the wings of that Nixonian neologism, the President proposed the first fundamental overhaul of the U.S. welfare system since it was created 34 years ago. The key element to the reform was a "family-assistance system." Although Nixon pointedly denied it, the notion is very much like a guaranteed income-with one'crucial difference. For the ablebodied, willingness to accept "suitable" employment or vocational training would be the quid for the quo of assistance. In essence, Nixon...