WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-In a stinging message, President Nixon vetoed today a Congressionally initiated bill to establish a national system of comprehensive child development and day care. The proposal, he said, was characterized by “fiscal irresponsibility, administrative unworkability and family‐weakening implications.” The President said that he objected to committing, without wide national debate, “the vast moral authority of the national Government to the side of cornmunal approaches to childrearing over against the familycentered approach.” The veto brought quick, sharp reaction from Congress. “We'll fight it all the way,” said Representative Carl D. Perkins, Democrat of Kentucky, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee
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"'I've worked for years for the welfare of the people,'' Mr. Perkins observed early in the Reagan Administration. ''And now I'm seeing practically everything dismantled. I'm just not going to vote to destroy these programs.'' Colleagues in Congress and leaders of the educational community paid tribute to his leadership after learning of his death. Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said: ''Public education and teachers have lost one of their great champions. Carl Perkins was a friend to everyone in America who sought a better life.'' Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the National Education Association, said: ''For over three decades, Representative Perkins stood at the very forefront of the effort to enhance the quality of education in our nation. He was truly Mr. Education.'' Even before becoming chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, Mr. Perkins gained the reputation in Congress of being highly adept at dipping into what is called the Federal ''pork barrel'' to aid his 23-county district, one
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The proposal, he said, was characterized by “fiscal irresponsibility, administrative unworkability and family‐weakening implications.”
The President said that he objected to committing, without wide national debate, “the vast moral authority of the national Government to the side of cornmunal approaches to childrearing over against the familycentered approach.” The veto brought quick, sharp reaction from Congress. “We'll fight it all the way,” said Representative Carl D. Perkins, Democrat of Kentucky, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee ( ... )
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Colleagues in Congress and leaders of the educational community paid tribute to his leadership after learning of his death.
Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said: ''Public education and teachers have lost one of their great champions. Carl Perkins was a friend to everyone in America who sought a better life.''
Mary Hatwood Futrell, president of the National Education Association, said: ''For over three decades, Representative Perkins stood at the very forefront of the effort to enhance the quality of education in our nation. He was truly Mr. Education.'' Even before becoming chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, Mr. Perkins gained the reputation in Congress of being highly adept at dipping into what is called the Federal ''pork barrel'' to aid his 23-county district, one ( ... )
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