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...evidence is plentiful and persuasive. When South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond vented his anger at the Nixon Administration's school desegregation policies in the South, it was Shultz rather than Justice or HEW officials who briefed the press on the Administration's intentions. As a battle over foreign trade policy continues in the Congress, it is Shultz rather than Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans who is explaining Nixon's preferences. When Nixon decided to warn Congress that it must hold down spending to check inflation, it was again Shultz rather than a member of the speechwriting staff...
Tentatively called the Common Cause, it would function as a kind of superlobby, mobilizing widespread pressure to attack the national failures that have occupied Gardner since he left HEW and assumed leadership of the National Urban Coalition in 1968-inadequate housing, unemployment, poor education, poverty. "The purpose," he said, "should be to revitalize and needle both of the parties, and also to revitalize politics and Government at every level. The solutions aren't mysterious. Talk to any able city councilman, state assemblyman, Governor or mayor. City government is archaic. Most state governments are feeble. Congressional reform is a familiar...
...wider repertory of activities were encouraged throughout life. Almost everyone now marches together in a sort of lockstep. They spend years in school, years at work and years in retirement. Youth might well work more, the middle-aged play more, and the older person go back to school. Former HEW Secretary John Gardner wants to see "midcareer clinics to which men and women can go to re-examine the goals of their working lives and consider changes of direction. I would like to see people visit such clinics with as little self-consciousness as they visit their dentist." As Psychiatrist...
Heard made the statement at a press briefing following a meeting with Nixon. Also present at the meeting were James E. Cheek, president of Howard University, who advises Nixon on problems at black universities, and John H. Finch, former Secretary of HEW and now special counsel to the President...
Mardian, along with Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard and HEW Civil Rights Chief J. Stanley Pottinger...