Nixon budget shows $4 billion cut
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Nixon Administration yesterday proposed lopping $4 billion off the new federal budget by cutting spending for every agency except the crime-fighting Justice Department.
Under the President's spending plans, which he wants substituted for the budget drawn up by former President Lyndon B? Johnson, the Defense Department would be cut $1.1 billion. Lowering proposed Social Security benefit increases would save another $1 billion and $1.9 billion would be sliced from agencies ranging from Space to Agriculture.
The proposed Nixon budget
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for fiscal 1970 beginning July 1 would total $192.9 billion compared with the $196.9 billion Johnson suggested in January. The new administration's spending plans would be about $6 billion higher than estimated outlays for the current fiscal year.
The administration said Nixon's proposals would result in a $5.8 billion surplus for fiscal 1970, the largest surplus since 1951.
Budget Director Robert P. Mayo noted, however, that 85 per cent of Nixon's proposed cuts would require Congressional action, either in the form of new legislation or through reduced appropriations.
Nixon's plan called for cutting federal job payrolls by 21,000 workers below what Johnson envisioned, including 4,700 from
the Veteran's Administration, the hardest hit agency.
In announcing Nixon's proposals, the Budget Bureau said the President had three objectives—to combat inflation through less government spending; "bring federal outlays under control;" and begin "redirecting ongoing federal programs toward his administration's goals."
The Justice Department under Atty, Gen. John P. Mitchell, was the only agency to escape a money cut.
Nixon asked that the Justice Department's budget be
increased by $16 million to $830 million and that it be permitted to employ 38,200 persons, an increase of 1,600 over Johnson's request and an increase of 2,600 over the current level.
Mayo said 26 per cent of the savings would be provided by increasing Social Security benefits 7 per cent instead of the 10 per cent proposed by Johnson. Any increase would require new legislation.
Mayo said, "Hard choice and potentially unpopular decisions have not been avoided. Where good judgment dictated a budget
reduction because we believe a program has outlived its usefulness, that decision has been made."
The Budget Bureau said that 27 per cent of the reduction was in military cutbacks and the $1.1 billion lower figure was permitted by lower consumption of ammunition in the Vietnam war, a scale-down of the Johnson Administration's Anti-ballistic Missile System and modification in plans for procuring short range attack missiles.
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High Jump—7-0, Steve Herndon, Missouri, 1967.
Pole Vault—17-0½, Chuck Rogers, Colorado, 1968.
Long Jump—26-2½, Clarence Robinson, New Mexico, 1965.
Triple Jump—51-6½, Lennox Burgher, Nebraska, 1968.
Shot Put—65-10¾, Randy Matson, Texas AGM, 1965.
Discus—181-11½, Doug Knop, Kansas, 1968.
Javelin—266-5½, Bill Floerke, Kansas State, 1965.
Mile Run—3:57, Jim Ryun, Kansas, 1967.
440-Yard Intermediate Hurdles—52.6, Val Schierling, Em-
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Hammer Throw—159-4, Mark Cox, Southern Illinois Track
Club, 1968.
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