8220;political wilderness.” However he captured the Republican nomination for President in 1968. Lyndon B. Johnson the current President announced his withdraw from re-election, and Richard Nixon became the 35th President of the United States. He ran and won again in 1972 and then resigned on August 8,1974 because of the Watergate Scandal.One of Nixon’s best plans for reforming the welfare program was his Family Assistance Program (FAP). Under this program the federal government was to recognize a responsibility for meeting the welfare program on the national scale. Mr. Nixon originally proposed that a family of four should receive $1,600 dollars a year in 1969. Then in 1971 he raised the allowance up to $2,400 dollars a year. The Work Incentive Program (WIN) of 1971 was to provide incentives and allowances to the working poor and help bring their income level up to the federal level. The working recipients would be able to earn additional income without reducing their welfare allowance. Job training and day care facilities were to be greatly expanded (HOFF, 131-133). States were expected to supplement this amount and all able-bodied heads of recipient families were to “accept work or training.” Exception would be made to mothers with pre-school aged children. If a parent refused to work or receive job training then only the parent’s payment would be withheld. FAP was to guarantee children with an annual income. It would also triple the number of children that were then being aided by AFDC (VOORHIS, 220-224).This bill failed in Congress in 1969. It was expected to pass the Senate when it was resubmitted in 1972. Then Nixon proposed to hold off on it for a year. The bill eventually died in the Senate due to Nixon’s resignation (AITKEN, 412). Some obje3ctives to this proposal called for a higher allowance of $7,000 dollars, which was declared as the minimum amount of income a family of...
