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...occasion. The President's aides estimated that the Senator's comprehensive plan would cost a staggering $63.8 billion a year to the Government and employers, just for openers. It makes more sense, said Carter, to make a start with a less sweeping plan. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano observed that there was no more chance of getting a program like Kennedy's through Congress "than putting an elephant through a keyhole...
...Kennedy promptly sent Califano an assemblage of a small, fuzzy pink elephant easily slipping through a keyhole in white posterboard paper. The scrawled note at the bottom: "Joe, it looks to me like it fits. Ted. June...
...will, but the lingering effects of radiation from the nuclear accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island continue to haunt local residents, to say nothing of the neighbors of nuclear facilities elsewhere in the U.S. To ease those fears, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr. last week made good on a promise: he announced details of a four-pronged, long-range study of all families and plant workers possibly affected by last March's near disaster...
...Califano emphasized that launching the studies does not reflect any new alarm. Nor did he back off from estimates that the accident will add only one cancer death to the 325,000 expected in the region's population of 2 million. Despite the HEW chiefs reassuring words, the atmosphere in the Three Mile Island area remains charged with emotion...
Joseph A. Califano Jr., HEW Secretary, at Notre Dame: "Of all the judgments of history and God we should fear, it is their judgment on our continued failure to use the means at hand to end the hunger of the world that we should fear most...