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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 8, 1973
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War, Social Budget Cut ...
By BILL GIBSON
BY BILLS GIBSON
Kansan Staff Writer
The United States will stop intervening in other nation's internal affairs and will no longer subject its own citizens to condescending paternalism, declared President Nixon in his 1973 inaugural address.
The news events of the first part of 1973 indicated that the president's prediction was partly correct.
During this time the government ended its longest war and loosened wage and price controls. It abandoned much of the "Great Society," and shrouded the government's former big spender tactics in a cloak of fiscal responsibility.
But this period also included a devastating bombing of North Vietnam, continued U.S. military action in Indochina, revelations of secretive hikins by FBI and administrative officials and extensions of the President's power.
REVELATIONS IN THE Watergate bugging scandal and related administrative coverups suddenly poured out from the log jam of official denials during this period.
A recent Gallup Poll indicated that 40 per cent of Americans believed that Nixon was the best president.
The year began with a diplomatic military reversal. After tantalizing the nation with the pledge that "peace was at hand" the administration ordered a crackdown on North Vietnam because "it was clear that serious negotiations could not be resumed."
Just as suddenly, the bombing ceased and a Vietnam cease-fire and peace settlement was reached. The agreement included an extension of the release of U.S. prisoners, withdrawal of the remaining 24,000 U.S. forces from South Vietnam and a guarantee that the people of South Vietnam had the "right to determine future without outside interference."
A sigh of relief came from the American
people when more than 500 American prisoners returned home.
BUT U.S. PRESENCE in Indochina did not with the peace settlement or the prisoner's return. Air raids over the jungles of loses by American B-42 bombers 'interned'
The South Vietnamese high command accused the Communists of 373 truce violations in one day soon after the ceasefire.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died on the eve of the peace that had eluded him. The most powerful Senate majority leader in the nation's history and one of the strongest Presidents, Johnson was revered for his legislation of civil rights and the extension of the Vietnam War. He died Jan. 22 at 94 of coronary thrombosis.
Johnson died in the midst of the administration's dismantling of his "Great Society" programs. Nixon confronted Congress with a lean budget for fiscal 1974 that terminated or cut back many of what he had promised to feed corned cow"programs of the big spenders.
NIXON PROMOTED the abolition of the more than 100 federal grant programs. The urban renewal and model cities programs were phased out.
The autopoverty programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity were either eliminated or shuttled to other administrative departments.
Members of Congress complained bitterly about the abandonment of these programs. They passed bills surpassing the President's budget that were then vetoed. Attempts to override the vetos were unsuccessful.
Although the President's budget shackled many antipoverty programs, its 45 per cent share designated for human needs was greater than last year's budget and the 30 per cent share granted the military was the lowest since 1950.
IMPOUNDING OF Congressional allocations and the use of executive privilege to eliminate testimony concerning the president's overrun over the President's increasing powers.
Congressional anger over the budget cuts was increased by the President's refusal to spend funds even when appropriated by Congress.
L. Patrick Gray II, acting director of the FBI, also quit his post after candid testimony before the Senate investigating committee on Friday that files at the direction of White House aides.
The President's top domestic advisers, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman, Atty. Gen. Richard Kleindienst and Presidential Counsel John Dean III resigned or were fired and prepared to meet a grand war investigation of the matter.
Day by day throughout the first four months of 1973, the case of the bungled bugging of the Democratic headquarters became more and more involved, implicating men higher up on the administrative totem pole.
Initially, the President refused to allow anyone in the executive branch testify before Congressional investigating committee without his approval.
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lift his executive privileged ban and "clean house."
Alarmed by the rising cost of food, especially meat, a nationwide consumer boycott of beef, lamb and pork was staged by American consumers.
THE SUPREME COURT decided, 7 to 2, that a woman has a right to medical abortions during the first six months of pregnancy as part of her right of privacy. This decision makes unconstitutional 31 cases that place further restrictions on abortions.
In an address to the nation, Nixon pledged
do so and said he accepted responsibility for
the war.
Although the effects were negligible in some areas, some packing houses were shut down, 20,000 meat industry workers were employed and about 35,000 more such as 30 per cent in some supermarkets.
Phase III confronted management and labor with only "voluntary" wage and price guidelines to be enforced by the Cost of Violence, in which especially onerous violations occurred.
Other news events of 1973 included monetary changes, liberalized abortion rulings, a meat boycott and an Indian uprising.
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