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...might retain, at least for a transitional period, a few key people in the current Administration. For example, he has a high regard for fellow Southerner David Mathews, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. But two present Cabinet members would be certain to go: Agriculture's Earl Butz and State's Henry Kissinger. He would disappoint many fervent backers who expect some patronage for their troubles. (Almost always as Governor, he reached outside the circle of his close supporters to fill important state posts...
...unmasking as a paid Lockheed operative was the highlight of a week of corporate scandals; the others involved entertainment of Defense Department officials at hunting lodges by military contractors and a Christmas vacation for Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz paid by the Southern Railway...
Meanwhile, Southern Railway conceded that it had paid for a Christmas visit by Agriculture Secretary Butz to the railroad's private resort near Charleston, S.C.-even though the Agriculture Department has filed petitions with the Interstate Commerce Commission protesting rate increases by Southern on farm products. Butz told the Associated Press that he had done nothing wrong, said he would repay part of the cost himself and defiantly added that, if asked, he would visit the resort again next Christmas...
Among its most important members: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Attorney General Edward Levi, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz (though he only studied at Chicago for a summer en route to a doctorate from Purdue), Solicitor General Robert H. Bork, Presidential Adviser Robert Goldwin and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin. The biggest representation is at the State Department, an almost exclusively Eastern preserve until after World War II. Now Chicago takes credit for the department's No. 2 man, Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of State who was educated at Yale but is a trustee at Chicago...
...this country, as the scent of new money and power spreads a lot of changes are taking place, and more are expected. The big-oil boys (petropower, says Butz) who have had their way m Washington for so long, now face a challenge from agri-power. No new farm bloc has formed on the Hill because the new food equation embraces everyone from Wall Street bankers to the hired hand. But if the various interests in food can find common ground, the pressure that such a lobby could bring would dwarf anything seen in the capital...