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...cope with HEW, that man is Joseph A. Califano Jr.?the ebullient, energetic and experienced Secretary of HEW. An impassioned advocate of federal programs, he devised many of them as President Lyndon Johnson's chief domestic adviser. Yet if he is a big spender and a master bureaucrat, he is also a canny enough politician to know that limits of some kind have been reached. Says Califano: "I am trying to make the department a symbol of the manageability of government. I want to deliver the services that have been set up to the people who need them...
...their concentration on means. Says Carl Coleman, a public affairs officer in HEW'S regional office in Denver: "HEW gets the social engineers, the people they call do-gooders. They're committed, and they make a lot of mistakes because of their ardor." His favorite example: the West Coast bureaucrat who tried to ban father-son school banquets on the ground that they discriminated against women...
...country where HEW'S services are delivered, people often complain that its programs are not tailored closely enough to local needs. This has become more of a problem since Califano took away the power of the ten regional directors and re-centralized it in Washington. Too few bureaucrats, HEW'S critics claim, are rewarded for initiative. Says Robert Mollica, who deals with federal-state relations for the Governor's office in Massachusetts: "Occasionally we will find a bureaucrat who is courageous enough to interpret the spirit behind the programs rather than carrying them out to the letter whether...
Discrimination problems among employees at Harvard are hidden. Significantly, while every personnel officer and high-level bureaucrat with hiring privileges insists that there is no discrimination in his or her department, they will not vouch for others. The general feeling is that discrimination does exist, but everyone is quick to point out it is not in his nest. Nevertheless, there are two noticeable types of this "hidden" discrimination--above and beyond the indubitable predominance of white males in the ranks of senior administrators and tenured faculty...
...almost captured Angola's capital, Luanda, before independence came. As for the CIA itself, Stockwell ridicules it as a bungling old-boy outfit fraught with favoritism and burdened with middle-grade mediocrities. He calls William Colby, who was CIA director in Stockwell's time, "a disciplined, amoral bureaucrat, who fawned over the politicians and game-players on [Capitol] Hill...