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Bodmer's team studied 13 families with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a rare hereditary condition affecting adolescents in which the large intestine is carpeted with hundreds of small growths called polyps, which frequently become cancerous. After reading about a boy who suffered from several disorders, including FAP, that seemed linked to a missing portion of chromosome No. 5,* the researchers hypothesized that all FAP victims lack the same genetic material. They were right. Afflicted patients had the chromosome defects; healthy ones did not. The scientists further postulated that a person with FAP inherits from one parent a healthy gene that...
...curious that the Family Assistance Plan was defeated not by individuals, but by the decision--making process itself. When an able backer like Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, guided FAP through Congress, it passed easily. It failed only when the forces of struggle and counter struggle couldn't decide if it was too much or too little. And so we finally got nothing...
Moynihan proposes two main theses: Nixon's FAP was radical reform, and only a conservative executive could institute such a liberal program. He repeats these themes over and over until the reader is praying to be just simply left alone...
...FAP FAILED because people in the Senate saw it as basic welfare reform, which it was not. Moynihan correctly says that FAP was a major program. But by itself FAP would not have reformed a badly mangled welfare system except by adding more millions of people to the welfare rolls. Senator Williams torpedoed the bill with his charts and graphs, showing that the total welfare system includes work disincentives which the FAP would not correct. When Nixon presented the FAP to the nation in August, 1969, he stressed that the plan would make work compulsory: "Anyone who accepts benefits must...
Moynihan's second thesis--that a conservative Nixon co-opted the liberals by proposing a reform plan--rests upon the assumption that all Congressmen should have supported the FAP. The liberal Democrats have always favored welfare reform and could be expected to propose a guaranteed income of their own (McGovern did); the Republicans could be expected to go along with their president's program on principle; and the conservative Dixiecrats were counted on to back the plan because their states would receive the most benefits. But the plan failed and it failed from the left. Liberals were heard saying...