Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...
Despite the improved political outlook, there is growing concern over the activities of the left-wing Mouvement Militant Mauricien, a Maoist group headed by Paul Berenger, 25, son of a well-to-do middle-class Franco-Mauritian family...
...hearing on the scope of police surveillance and the relevancy of the material being gathered to a proper police function. Thus, civil-liberties groups still hope to narrow the scope of intelligence activities. The police now compile their data on two forms. One classifies demonstrations as pacifist, religious, right-wing, leftwing, civil rights, militant, nationalistic, black power, Ku Klux Klan and extremist. The second form is less vague, potentially more dangerous. It covers the people attending or taking part in demonstrations and calls for information on their families, employers, finances, personal habits and past activities...
...aides ration his time and husband his energy. "We've got to watch out for the President," Haldeman explains. Nixon's rhythms of work are carefully plotted, and an elaborate machinery processes communications into the White House. Into the offices of deputies and assistants on the West Wing main floor, in the White House basement and in the nearby gray stone Executive Office Building pour reports from every branch of Government, information from around the nation and world, requests from Government officials and private citizens to see the President or his highest advisers. Even omitting secretaries and stenographers, the White...
...politics; of pneumonia; in Inglewood, Calif. An energetic campaigner, "Goodie" Knight served two terms as Earl Warren's Lieutenant Governor, then succeeded him in office and made his own mark with the voters, winning by a landslide in 1954. Long at odds with the state's conservative wing, Knight blamed Richard Nixon for his defeat in the 1958 senatorial election, and in 1962 made it an open fight in the gubernatorial primary−which went to Nixon...