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...professionally. Instead, he was a man who had been rescued and given safe haven-by the vessel that had rammed him in the first place. But he was still gamely loyal. "It's a higher calling," he quipped, "but a lower salary" ($42,500 v. $60,000 at HEW...
When the Administration took office, it seemed that Finch's troubles would be -like those of any HEW Secretary -financial and administrative, rather than political and ideological. HEW is a bureaucratic monster, with some 250 separate programs and a personnel roster of 107,000. Finch, given his pick of several Cabinet jobs, hesitated not at all on which to take: "HEW is where the action...
Finch's critics were to argue later that he never quite mastered his sprawling empire. Continuing turmoil, particularly within the Health section, was a constant problem (see MEDICINE). But Finch brought to the job a determination to reform and modernize HEW. Though firmly positioned in the progressive wing of the G.O.P., he is also a Nixon team player. "Our theme is going to be pragmatism," he announced. Translated, that meant no quick requests for extra billions and grandiose new programs. It did mean innovative proposals like the welfare reform scheme, which finally became Administration policy after much internal debate...
...THINK of myself as a career public servant," says Elliot Richardson, 49, the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer named last week to succeed Robert Finch as the boss of HEW. He knows the premises; he served as HEW Assistant Secretary in the Eisenhower Administration and turned down the HEW undcr-secretaryship under Nixon, explaining that "I had already been through all that." Instead, he has been the No. 2 man in the State Department, where he has displayed a talent for management that will be exercised to the full in picking up the pieces at diffuse and demoralized HEW...
Richardson's welcome of staff initiative and readiness to exchange ideas should help soothe the temper of HEW, which employs many of Nixon's in-house dissenters. Those liberal dissenters are getting a Secretary cut from the same moderate-to-liberal mold as his predecessor. At the 1968 Miami convention that nominated Nixon and Agnew, Richardson's was one of the few dissenting shouts from the floor when it was moved that Agnew's nomination be made unanimous...