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...Elliot Richardson took over the Department of Health, Education and Welfare eleven months ago from Robert Finch, he faced the added burden of trying to master an often chaotic bureaucracy of 110,000 employees and administering more than 250 different programs budgeted at nearly $70 billion a year. HEW is second only to the Defense Department in cost and third to Defense and the Post Office in personnel. The frustrations of the job have exhausted Secretaries on the average of one every two years since Dwight Eisenhower founded the department...
...Secretary John Veneman, Finch's best appointment, a health and welfare expert enjoying considerable respect on Capitol Hill. Otherwise, Richardson has transformed the departmental hierarchy. With the departure of James Farmer, the only black in the department's upper reaches, and outspoken Education Commissioner James Allen Jr., HEW has lost important symbols of social passion. But two of his appointees, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Laurence Lynn Jr. and the education commissioner, Sidney Marland Jr., have brought a new level of expertise and technocratic brilliance...
...Burger Court: "It is likely to hew to the Warren Court line with respect to racial matters, but to retreat from Warren Court principles in criminal procedure and personal liberty. This is not just a product of shifting personnel. For the most part, the great decisions of the Supreme Court are based on two building blocks: the development of the law and the public conception of the law. In the area of race, those two building blocks were there. But in criminal jurisprudence, it's quite possible that the series of building blocks was not quite complete. There...
Richardson served as Undersecretary of State in the Nixon administration until mid-1970, when he was named head of HEW. He replaced in that post Robert Finch, a close friend of Nixon who moved to the White House to become an adviser to the President. He was frequently mentioned during the fall as a possible candidate for the Harvard Presidency, but some observers felt that his close identification with the Nixon Administration would make him unpalatable to students; also, he lacked the "primary academic commitment" which the Corporation had announced early in the search as a vital criterion...
...will coordinate and expand the efforts of existing agencies. The Treasury Department's law enforcement operations, primarily against smuggling, and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs would continue, but with increased funds. The treatment, rehabilitation and education programs would be centered in a new office, probably in HEW. Its director would have wide powers to draw on existing resources at HEW and the National Institutes of Health, and would report directly to the President...