Word: mcmichael
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...Congress already concerned with the ending of the session ("What message?" asked a member of Tip O'Neill's staff last week). Many activists were disappointed. "The White House has given us a very good chronicle of exactly where we are right now," says Jane McMichael, executive director of the National Women's Political Caucus. "But it also makes clear how much more remains to be done...
...Hoover Aides John P. Mohr and Nicholas Callahan. These men were found to have destroyed records of an FBI "recreation" fund after Hoover's death, and after Callahan had spent $39,590 of the money for an unexplained "library fund." The two former officials, along with G. Speights McMichael, another aide to Hoover, were also held responsible for a questionable business arrangement. This involved purchases of electronic equipment, without competitive bidding, from the Washington-based U.S. Recording Co. between 1963 and 1975. One such purchase of burglar-alarm equipment in 1971 cost $147,261.50, while the same equipment could...
...Carter's boast that he has tripled the number of women in top posts is shrugged off by Jane McMichael, executive director of the National Women's Political Caucus. Says she: "Three times nothing is still nothing." Women hold only 18% of the policymaking jobs in the Carter Administration-29 out of 154 posts-and that percentage is substantially affected by the Commerce Department, where Secretary Kreps has selected women for five of the 14 top-ranking jobs. Elsewhere, the record is much worse. HUD's Harris has included two women among the nine people...
Explains Jane McMichael, director of the National Women's Political Caucus: "In previous years, women were running for office-lower office-as a sort of hobby at age 56. Now more and more young professional women are making politics their career." Yet only a few, like Carla Anderson Hills, 41, the new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, have been able to break into what is still a male bastion: appointive jobs in the Executive Branch...
...PETER K. McMICHAEL...