Date: January 31, 1972
Time: 2:34 pm - 2:42 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Abraham A. Ribicoff.
[See Conversation No. 661-1B]
Greetings
Ribicoff's comments on welfare reform
-President's commitment to reform
Welfare reform bill
-Congressional problems
-President's view
-Advice of Ribicoff
-Budget problem
-Russell B. Long
-Wallace F. Bennett
-The President’s possible meeting with Long, Bennett, and Ribicoff
-Possibility of common ground
-Ribicoff's view
-Finance Committee attitude
-Possibility of common ground
-Bennett
-Support for the President
-Influence on others
-Carl T. Curtis
-Paul J. Fannin
-Herman E. Talmadge's stance
-Harry F. Byrd Jr.'s stance
-Ribicoff’s talk with Elliot L. Richardson, January 31, 1972
-Protest against expensive programs
-Ribicoff’s speech
-Medicare and Medicaid
-Addition of working poor to welfare program
-Number
-Cost
-Reaction by Congress
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Present program
-Effective date
-1973 budget maneuvers
-Ribicoff’s conversation with Richardson
-Pilot program
-Testing of new program
-Benefits
-Options
-Savings
-Workability
-Effect in Finance Committee
-Results
-Remainder of President's bill
-Family Assistance Plan [FAP]
-Debate on floor
-Results
-House Resolution [HR] 1
-Possibility of meeting with Long, Bennett, and Ribicoff
-The President’s schedule
-Recent meeting with Richardson
-Cancer program
-Confrontation in committee
-Results
-Ribicoff view
-Pilot program for working poor
-Results in Finance Committee
-Bennett, Long, and Ribicoff
-Floor maneuvers
-Results
-House of Representatives
-HR 1
-Ribicoff amendments
-Working poor inclusion
-Results
-Ribicoff’s possible meeting with John D. Ehrlichman
-Strategy discussion
-Richardson
-President's position
-Necessity
-Ribicoff's speech
-The President’s news summary note
-Results
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NIXON PRESIDENTIAL MATERIALS STAFF
Tape Subject Log
(rev. 10/06)
-Benefits of talk
-Ribicoff’s possible meeting with Ehrlichman and Richardson
-Long’s and Bennett’s opinion
-Ribicoff view
-Welfare poor pilot program
-Editorials
-Ribicoff constituency view
-Connecticut
-Ehrlichman meeting
-The President’s possible talk with Ribicoff