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...Joseph A. Califano Jr., the sharp-witted, liberal and independent-minded Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. His replacement, subject to Senate confirmation: Patricia Harris, head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and first black woman in the Cabinet. Her successor at HUD has not been announced...
Most of the departments tried to make the deadline, but there were three notable exceptions: Blumenthal said he would not fill out the forms. Adams said that he was ripping up his. Califano left his forms for his successor, Pat Harris. Said he: "I'm perfectly happy to evaluate people, but not on the basis of what time they go to work...
...distinction into the Administration. In effect, the President and his men had done little more than try to shift blame for their troubles to the Cabinet and draw up the wagons in a circle for the 16-month political siege that will end with the 1980 election. According to Califano, Carter specifically said that he "had to get the Cabinet and the Administration ready for the 1980 election." The White House denied it, but Califano stuck to his account...
Carter's first victim was Califano, who was called to the Oval Office Wednesday evening. The President's Georgia Mafia gave Califano good marks for administering HEW, but accused him of being a big-spending liberal, a "slick operator" and "not a team player." Said a Carter aide: "Competence alone is not enough. There has to be loyalty." And not only to Carter; Califano had been at odds with Hamilton Jordan almost from the beginning. Califano has been faulted for not enthusiastically supporting Carter's bill to create a Department of Education separate from HEW. His case also...
...Joseph Califano was dismissed as Secretary of HEW because he was too independent, things may remain much the same under Patricia Roberts Harris, 55, whose colleagues at HUD consider her, with some admiration, every bit as "abrasive" and "pushy" as Califano. A strong-willed woman who fights hard within the bureaucracy for what she wants, Harris does differ from Califano in one important respect: if she loses a battle, she keeps quiet in public and joins in carrying out the Administration decision...