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...gone from the health sector of HEW; only two of the ten top officials survive in the Labor Department; four are out at Agriculture; five have been dismissed at Justice. Only one assistant secretary is likely to remain at Interior. The sacking of longtime Park Service Chief George Hartzog stirred the biggest outcry there. "He has more competence in his little finger than that whole bunch at the White House," growled a staff member of the Senate Interior Committee, which was not consulted on the firings...
...Office of Management and Budget for himself. "It's the year of the advance man," sighs a second-level official as he waits for the bad word. Four of the new appointees were Nixon advance men in 1968. One of them, Ronald Walker, 35, who will replace Hartzog as Park Director, continued to serve as advance man on the President's trips to China and Russia. An official at Interior sardonically notes, "Well, we were looking for a guy with international experience...
Ironically, the Conservation Foundation report was commissioned by the man whom it implicitly excoriates, George B. Hartzog Jr., 52, director of the National Park Service. Hartzog is known as a consummate politician, the last high-ranking Democrat in the Nixon Administration. Since his appointment in 1964, he has persuaded Congress to add 2.5 million acres to the national park system...
...glass and blue enamel, on the doubtful theory that it will thus blend with the sky. History buffs from as far away as Texas have protested, but Ottenstein remains undeterred. Gettysburg is unzoned and Ottenstein already has the necessary building permits, so nothing stands in his way. Says George Hartzog Jr., director of the National Park Service: "Many mistakes have been made at Gettysburg, some by the park service. But of all the projects planned or carried out, this tower is the most monstrous...
Politics as Usual. In Hiland Park, Fla., 282 people went to the polls, elected C. T. Hartzog mayor, four other citizens as town commissioners, then voted down a proposal to incorporate the community, thereby leaving the newly elected officials without a town to govern...