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— Griffin Daily News Friday, Dec. 3,1971
Taxes
By MICHAEL L. POSNER
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Nixon, who prides
himself on being a shrewd
poker player, has outplayed the
Democrats in a high stakes
game that could help the GOP
in the 1972 presidential election.
And he didn’t even show his
cards.
The game, so to speak, was a
four-day affair that started
Monday and ended Thursday
involving the Democratic presi
dential financing plan for ’72
which would have given the
debt-ridden Democrats |20.4
million in tax money and an
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equal amount to the Republi
cans—although the GOP said it
would refuse the money.
But as it came out of the
House-Senate Conference
Thursday, the campaign financ
ing plan was postponed until
the 1976 elections at the
earliest. This was a considera
ble victory for Nixon who
vigorously opposed it.
But how he won it became
clear only today.
, Dems’ Strong Cards
Democrats had the strong
cards on Monday when House-
Senate conferees met on
Nixon’s priority tax bill to
Poker player Nixon wins
without showing his hand
stimulate the economy through
personal and corporate tax
cuts. The Democrats in the
Senate had attached the financ
ing plan to the measure to
allow each taxpayer to divert
$1 of his taxes to the party of
his choice.
On Monday Nixon announced
through White House spokes
men that he would veto the
measure if it contained either
“budget busting’’ Senate
amendments or the Democratic
financing plan.
On Tuesday Rep. Wilbur D.
Mills, D-Ark., the conference
chairman, managed to get the
support of his six House team
members (three Democrats and
three Republicans) to kill $12.1
billion in Senate tax cut
amendments.
This apparently satisfied the
White House demand for
elimination of the budget
busting proposals. The bill now
stood at $15.8 billion in tax
relief, approximately what
Nixon originally wanted.
New Veto Warning
Earlier on Tuesday, Nixon,
through White House spokes
men, again issued the veto
warning.
Democrats, who thought
Nixon had been bluffing, still
weren’t sure, but they showed
signs of uneasiness.
They believed he still
wouldn’t veto the important tax
measure because that would
throw the business world into
an uproar, since the bill
contained vital industrial tax
breaks, including a 7 per cent
tax write-off, retroactive to
April, for purchases of business
equipment.
On Wednesday, the conferees
cleaned up most of the tax
matters, but still left hanging
the matter of the campaign
financing plan which Demo
crats and organized labor had
been fighting for since 1966.
That same day Mills told a
local Democratic organization
the campaign financing play
would be in the measure and
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that Nixon would not veto it.
It seemed almost certain that
it would be in, especially in
light of Mills’ pronouncement.
Then, on Thursday, it was, so
to speak, a whole new card
game.
Late Wednesday, a White
House lobbyist started spread
ing the story that even if the
campaign financing plan got
out of the conference it would
be knocked out on the House
floor. The Democrats didn’t
have the votes, he said.
Plan Skips 1972
The story spread on Thurs
day, while the conferees were
working on the campaign
financing plan behind closed
doors.
Meantime a labor official
telephoned Rep. Thomas P.
O’Neill, D-Mass., the Democrat
ic whip, and said he understood
campaign financing was “out.”
O’Neill telephoned Speaker Carl
Albert who earlier came out
strongly for the proposal.
Albert telephoned Mills, and
said he understood it was
“out.” Mills assured Albert it
was “in.”
A half hour later, Mills’ panel
had included the campaign
financing plan. It was in—but
not for 1972.
Mills, a possible dark horse
presidential candidate who
hates to lose measures on the
floor, confided that he had
become convinced, apparently
overnight, that Nixon would
veto the economic measure.
Also he said there would be 75
Democratic votes against it on
the House floor, enough for it to
lose.
Byrnes Surprised
A separate Democratic lead
ership head count confirmed
that there might have been
enough reluctant Democrats
who would have teamed with
Republicans to defeat the
campaign kitty.
When the postponed cam
paign financing plan was voted,
the most surprised man in the
room was not a Democrat, but
Rep. John W. Byrnes, R-Wis.,
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the senior House Republican on
the panel.
Moments earlier he had
offered a plan to authorize $8
million each to Democrats and
Republicans, with a smaller
share to George Wallace, to
finance television, radio, news
paper advertising; but the four
Democrats on the House side
turned him down.
.“It would have been sure
financing Byrnes said.
Burke Objects
After the Byrnes proposal
lost, Mills pulled out a sheet of
amendments, including the key
one—putting off the date of
financing beyond 1972. The only
Democratic objection was
voiced by Rep. James A.
Brake, D-Mass.
Back in the White House
later, Nixon withdrew his veto
threat but indicated he would
fight to block future implemen
tation of the financing plan.
As it turned out, Nixon did
not have to decide whether to
veto a 1972 campaign financing
plan. And he also does not have
to show his other key card—the
votes in the House that his
aides said would have defeated
a campaign kitty for 1972.
The conference report will
probably come up for a vote in
both Houses next week.
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CAIRO (UPl)—Hamman Mo
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end up in jail because he eats
too much. He has asked the
police for help. Tura’i told
authorities his appetite is so
enormous he eats up to 60
small loaves of bread a day, in
addition to his other normal
food.
He said the cost of the bread
is beyond his meager salary
and he soon may have to resort
to begging, illegal in Egypt and
could land him in jail. He has
filed a complaint against
himself, asking the police to
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