Richard Nixon may be on the verge of signing into law a bill which would a) help thwart the social values and public policies for which he campaigned in 1972, b) limit the ability of American citizens to control their government through the electoral process, and c) provide a yearly subsidy in excess of $100 million to aid some of the nation’s most radical causes and organizations.
The bill is HR 7824, a radically transformed version of an already liberal bill which Mr. Nixon sent to Congress in May 1973. Its object is to “transfer” the OEO legal services program virtually intact—personnel, administrative rules, grant commitments —to an “independent” private corporation where, although it would be federally subsidized, the program would be totally removed from legal accountability to the President or to the Congress.
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