CBS Evening News - 1970-01-26
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[0:00] New York in color. This is the CBS
[0:02] Evening News with Walter Kronite and Dan
[0:06] Rather at the White House. Daniel Shore
[0:08] on Capitol Hill. David Shoemaker in
[0:11] Washington. Bill Walker in Frederick
[0:13] Town, Pennsylvania. Robert Shaky in New
[0:15] York. And Charles Caralt on the road.
[0:18] Tonight in North Dakota.
[0:20] >> Good evening. Last April, President
[0:23] Nixon asked Congress to appropriate $19
[0:26] bill00 million for the Department of
[0:28] Labor and Health, Education, and
[0:30] Welfare. In the ensuing months, the
[0:33] House and the Senate made all sorts of
[0:35] changes in individual programs within
[0:37] that appropriation and came out with an
[0:39] overall figure $100 million less than
[0:42] the president asked. But those program
[0:45] changes included adding $1 bill300
[0:48] million more than the president wanted
[0:50] for some education and health programs.
[0:53] The president threatened a veto. So
[0:55] Congress went home for Christmas without
[0:57] completing action on the bill. Well,
[0:59] today by shouted voice vote, the House
[1:01] gave final passage to the appropriation.
[1:04] The White House immediately said a veto
[1:06] will be forthcoming. And Mr. Nixon
[1:08] scheduled a nationwide broadcast for
[1:10] 9:00 tonight, Eastern time, to explain
[1:13] why. CBS will carry that live. Dan
[1:16] Rather reports. The president's basic
[1:18] argument tonight will be inflation. He
[1:20] will explain that a balanced budget is,
[1:22] in his judgment, the highest domestic
[1:24] priority and that he cannot balance the
[1:26] budget if the Democratic controlled
[1:28] Congress keeps sending him bigger
[1:29] spending bills. President Nixon is
[1:32] sensitive to the political danger t