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...needed his "oldest and closest friend and associate'' near by in the White House. He will have the title of Counsellor to the President, travel with the President at home and abroad, and provide advice on both domestic and certain foreign subjects. "I regret losing him at HEW," the President said. "But I need him here." Succeeding him at HEW will be Elliot Richardson, now Under Secretary of State...
...Viet Nam policy was a disaster. Eventually he persuaded the President to stop the bombing of North Viet Nam and start deescalation. To many, resignation is simply unrealistic. Responding to students who wanted him to resign as a protest against Nixon's Cambodian foray, Dr. Roger Egeberg, HEW's Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, was totally matter-of-fact: "What on earth good do you think a resignation does?" he asked. "It would be like a moth in a flame, hardly remembered the next...
...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School, joined med school deans from Tufts and Yale yesterday to meet in Washington with Roger O. Egoberg, assistant for Health and Scientific Affairs, and other HEW officials...
Last December, the HEW Commission on Pesticides and their Relationship to Environmental Health suggested that Carbaryl-an insecticide sprayed to combat the elm leaf beetle-was a potential health hazard to man. It apparently causes bone malformations in litters of mice and beagle dogs...
...HEW Commission delivered a similar warning against several forms of the herbicide 2,4-D. The particular salts of 2,4-D used to kill crabgrass here were not condemned, but the Commission urged further research into their possible side effects...