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...President proclaimed opposition to "unwarranted" defense cuts and later expressed disappointment over reductions of $5.1 billion in military authorizations and $720 million in foreign aid proposed by Senate committees. On the other hand, after the House narrowly passed a bill providing $20.4 billion in federal aid to mass transit over the next six years, Ford urged amendments that would slash the total to $11 billion (congressional Democrats are proposing to meet him halfway by cutting the bill to $15.8 billion). Ford is expected to veto another measure, already passed by Congress, that raises education benefits for veterans...
...Congressmen to vote to sustain all of Nixon's vetoes. On occasion, he has taken a more conservative stand than the White House. As a representative of an auto-manufacturing state, he voted against using any of the highway trust funds to pay for mass transit. "If Jerry saw a hungry child, he would give the kid his lunch," says Democrat Kleiner. "But he can't see that voting against the school lunch program is depriving millions of kids of food...
...policeman, McKeldin got through high school, college and law school at night, and became a devotee of Dale Carnegie. He built support among blacks as an early Republican proponent of civil rights, ordered integration of state-owned parks and beaches, and ended Baltimore's ban on black public-transit motormen. As the man who nominated Eisenhower in 1952, he was a serious contender for the running mate's slot...
...extremely conservative 25-year House record as secondary in importance to his pragmatism and spirit of cooperating. An article last Sunday describing Ford as a "hard-line, Pentagon-oriented cold warrier" and citing his "stinginess toward domestic social programs" (including fights against Medicare, housing bills, minimum wage raises, mass transit funds, and the poverty program), goes on to declare that "in spite of his votes, his partisanship and his public appearance, Mr. Ford had the foresight and flexibility to make some necessary changes in the Republican way of doing things in Congress." His naming of certain moderates to a Republican...
...reputation for reforming liberalism he earned in his early youth. While always calling himself liberal, Moses was a staunch conservative, even a reactionary, underneath. Moses had nothing but contempt for the filthiness and stupidity of the masses for whom he built parks, playgrounds and beaches. He starved mass transit because he was concerned chiefly with the welfare of those citizens substantial enough to own cars. He refused to let the subway system build an extension to Jones Beach--because he didn't want the great unwashed to bathe there. And of the 255 playgrounds he built in New York City...