NIXON SITS DOWN, SIGNS PROCLAMATION, SASEE SAYS THE TWO AND A HALF MILLION WHO FOUGHT IN VIETNAM DESERVE OUR THANKS AND OUR AID...AND THAT HE WANTS PARTICULAR ATTENTION PAID TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT GETTING THEIR AID. SHOTS OF VETERANS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES, VETERNANS ADMINISTRATOR DONALD JOHNSON SAYS HEATEDLY THAT TO SYSTEM WORKS WELL IN GETTING OUT MILLIONS OF CHECKS ON TIME BUT GIVEN THE MOVEMENT OF VETERNANS PLUS THE VERIFICATION PROCESS THERE ARE BOUND TO BE SOME PROBLEMS. REPORTER WRAPCP.




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THIS VTR VERSION ON NIXON SIGNING VETS PROCLAMATION IS BETTER THAN TVN VERSION ON NYK PROD 0797 - WHICH IS FILM - SO YOU MAY PREFERE TO GO WITH VTR VERSION RATHER THAN TVN FILM VERSION.
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Background: PRESIDENT NIXON SIGNED A VETERNANS PROCLAMATION TUESDAY AFTER CHARGES HAD BEEN MADE THAT MANY VEITNAM VETERNANS, ESPECAEEE ESPECIALLY THOSE GOING TO COLLEGE, WERE BEING SHORTCHANGED BY BUEEEE BUREAUCRATC SLOTH IN THE VETERNANS ADMINISTRATION.