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...Weifare. Panetta, 31, was forced out because of his allegedly excessive zeal in coercing Southern school districts to integrate under threat of losing their federal subsidies. "Panetta," explained a White House source, "was doing his thing, not the President's thing." The ouster further weakened the position of HEW Secretary Robert Finch, one of the few progressive counterweights to conservative influence on the racial issue in the Administration's top echelon. It also raised the suspicion that Education Commissioner lames E. Allen, another liberal subordinate of Finch's, might soon be forced out. > The Senate...
...created by the grouping of blacks in neighborhoods. The Southern strategists clearly hope that any attempt to move massively against the far more complex problems posed by de facto segregation would embroil the whole issue in new controversy, tie up the limited manpower resources of the Justice Department and HEW in complex investigations, and give the South more time to stall in desegregating its own schools...
...rare festivity. Presidents have been known to celebrate the passage of a cherished piece of legislation; Nixon celebrated a bill's demise. He invited the 191 Representatives who had voted to sustain his veto of the Labor-HEW appropriation. He had challenged the Democratic-controlled Congress to a showdown over a fundamental issue-control of domestic policies...
Neither Congress nor the White House emerged from the battle with very much glory. Congress had dallied for months with the HEW appropriation, far too long into the fiscal year to allow for effective amendment of programs in the bill. Congressmen pandered to the myriad interests of the education lobby by appropriating larger chunks for virtually everything. Most significantly, funds for "impacted areas" clouded and compromised the ideological lines. The President rightly condemned the inequities of the program (see box), but was willing to give Congress half the additional money it had voted...
...represents only one-half of 1% of the fiscal 1970 budget, it is difficult to believe that the appropriation would have been significantly inflationary. Nixon claimed that he is allotting more money for education than any President in the past. Yet the Administration's request for appropriations for HEW's Office of Education has fallen by $470 million...