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...complete integration. When Nixon made his March 24 desegregation statement, he drew a line between segregation sanctioned by official policy (de jure) and that resulting from segregated housing patterns (de facto). Nixon has long been opposed to busing purely for the purpose of integration. The firing of HEW Civil Rights Chief Leon Panetta and Education Commissioner James Allen, both strong advocates of integration, has made it clear that the Administration's objectives are limited. Only last week, in a Supreme Court case involving schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, N.C., the Justice Department supported a lower court decision that...
...high unemployment among young blacks is not helping," said James Farmer, once head of the Congress of Racial Equality and now an Assistant Secretary at HEW. Farmer also pointed last week to a further unsettling factor within the nation's black communities: lack of confidence in the Nixon Administration, in which Farmer himself is one of the highest-ranking blacks. "The blacks started out mistrusting the President, and nothing has happened to change that," Farmer added. "There's an absence of hope-a hopelessness among blacks. I am very much worried about this summer. The Administration is sitting...
...came "right out of the blue," said an aide. But the President simply had Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler explain to reporters that Agnew was speaking for himself, that Rhodes would not be replaced because the President wanted "a wide range of views" represented on the commission. Later, outgoing HEW Secretary Robert Finch who joined Nixon's White House staff, observed that the incident only served to strengthen the commission. Said Finch: "It might perhaps have given it more legitimacy and visibility than it had before...
...guessing game has spread abroad, where Crimsonologists on the European summer seminar circuit remind some observers of Romans gossiping during the interminable eve of a papal election. Some of the names being bandied about over there: Former HEW Secretary John Gardner, Vanderbilt Chancellor Alexander Heard (who turned down Columbia), McGeorge Bundy, Princeton Economist Carl Kaysen, Harvard Law School Dean Derek Bok, HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson. The Boston Record-American last week reported that Richardson has already been tapped and has accepted. But Harvard's Burr denies this. Says he: "The net is still...
...move, it developed last week, was the firing of James Allen as Commissioner of Education-a decision made in the White House but ex- ecuted by Finch in his last days as HEW Secretary. Many HEW staffers were already restive over the department's inability to withstand conservative pressure from the White House; had Finch stayed on after Allen's dismissal, a further result of that pressure, his position in HEW would have been further undermined...