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...self-made millionaire (from a South Carolina tool company), Malek joined the Administration in 1969 as Deputy Under Secretary of HEW. He soon proved himself a fierce administrator. When Nixon ousted Interior Secretary Wally Hickel for his criticism of the Administration, it was Malek who swept into Hickel's office and told six of his top aides to clear out their desks by the end of the week. After John Mitchell left the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, it was Malek who ran the committee from his post as deputy director...
Actually, both the polls and the interpretation are misleading, according to Irving Kristol, Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Values at New York University. "About 85% of American workers, when asked whether they are satisfied with their jobs, answer in the affirmative," he wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "[HEW] tries to show that they don't mean what they say. Thus if an employee tells an interviewer that he finds his work satisfying but also that he would like to change his job for something better, [HEW] concludes that he is 'alienated' from his work...
Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, has written the president of a group that complains about the HEW guidelines that require affirmative action in the hiring of minorities and women to explain his support for the guidelines...
Leonard's letter was addressed to Arthur Hertzberg, president of the American Jewish Congress and AJC Adjunct Professor of History at Columbia. The AJC was one of six Jewish groups that complained to the Office for Civil Rights about the HEW affirmative action program last weekend...
Just last spring President Nixon and Congress promised the nation's colleges and universities a vastly expanded program of aid through the new Higher Education Act. Nixon's only criticism at the time was that the bill should have gone even further in "equalizing opportunity for all." HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson called it "landmark" legislation. Democratic Representative John Brademas of Indiana hailed it as the most significant higher education law since the Land-Grant Act of 1862. The measure included two unprecedented steps: 1) direct aid of up to $1,400 a year-"basic educational opportunity grants," immediately...