The Nixon Watch: Shooting Santa Claus.

VETO; LEGISLATIVE bills; NIXON, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; PRESIDENTS of the United States; CONSTITUTIONAL law; CHILD development; COST of living

Focuses on plans of U.S. President Richard Nixon to veto a bill which extended the Economic Opportunity Act, established a National Legal Services Corp. to help poor people and authorized expenditure for comprehensive child development programs. Arguments against the vetoed bill's major components; Discussion on the issue of administrative practicability of the bill; Fact that the enacted measure burdened the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the projected legal services corporation, and the child care program with administrative complexities and inhibitions that were likely to diminish their usefulness; Issues related to management and cost; Announcement that Nixon wishes to make OEO an experimental and innovative rather than an operating agency by delegating its authority to manage proven poverty programs to federal departments.