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Tuesday January 21, 1975
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This Day In 1970's History: Tuesday January 21, 1975
  • President Ford moved to head off a drive in Congress and elsewhere for gasoline rationing. He said that he would veto mandatory rationing by itself as a superficial answer to the need to use less energy. He told his news conference that rationing was short-sighted, inequitable and inadequate to meet the long-range goal of ending dependence on foreign sources. He also said that he would ask Congress to defer passage of national health insurance because of projected budget deficits. [New York Times]

  • The Labor Department reported that the rise in consumer prices abated a little in December but that 1974 was the worst year since 1946 in consumer price inflation. The December increase in the Consumer Price Index was seven-tenths of 1 percent -- one of the smallest monthly increases of the year and well below the rate for the previous four months. [New York Times]

  • Al Ullman of Oregon, the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, told its organizing meeting that President Ford had concurred in the committee's plan to concentrate on a tax-cut bill and to defer consideration of increased oil taxes. Mr. Ford had wanted action on both, but Mr. Ullman argued that the committee could not act swiftly on an antirecession tax cut while considering the more controversial and complex energy tax problem. [New York Times]

  • The Supreme Court, in overruling its 1961 decision, said that shifting economic and social patterns have made it constitutionally unacceptable for states to deny women equal opportunity to serve on juries. The 8-1 majority broke new ground when it said that women's role in society was changing and that the courts must recognize their growing economic independence in contemporary life. [New York Times]

  • President Ford denounced North Vietnam for violating the Paris cease-fire accords and confirmed that he would ask Congress for $300 million in additional military aid to South Vietnam. He said at a televised press conference today that he could not foresee the re-entry of the United States into the war but that he did not rule out the possibility of asking Congress to let him use American air power or naval power against North Vietnam. He backed Secretary of State Kissinger's "hypothetical" comment that if the West was undergoing "actual strangulation" he might consider force against oil producers. [New York Times]
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