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Come January of 1977, however, it was a different story. Carter turned to a veteran--indeed an architect of the Great Society--Joseph A. Califano Jr., for his Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Califano, a graduate of Holy Cross College and Harvard Law School, was known as a policymaker, a man who steered his own course. When he went looking for people to fill the sub-Cabinet posts at HEW, he wanted someone with financial expertise to serve as Undersecretary, the number two post in the department. He obviously wanted a Democrat, and preferably a liberal one, with some...
...February 4, Walsh was summoned to Califano's office, and found Califano, Champion, and HEW's General Counseldesignate Thomas Barrett in the office. Walsh says Califano asked him if he had begun the Souza investigation, and then told him that he should henceforth clear all investigations with the General Counsel's office. Califano also asked Walsh to wait until after Barrett had drawn up a plant for the investigation...
...says, investigations that proceed under the direction of a general counsel usually don't produce anything because the lawyers are overly cautious in their investigating techniques. So he went back, asked for more specific instructions on how to proceed with other investigations, and, feeling that he did not have Califano's full support or confidence, resigned, effective March...
Talmadge had his committee staff show Champion's responses to Walsh, who disagreed with them. Later, Walsh submitted an affadavit giving his version of the incidents that led to his resignation. The committee staff also suspected that the directives from Califano and Champion to put the investigation under the General Counsel's Office were the result of pressure from California's governor or congressional delegation. The Congressional committees had been under pressure to go easy on probes into California Medicare fraud, so Talmadge and company reasoned that HEW could have been responding to similar pressure. Champion's ties to California...
...than 100 spectators, chimed in with praise for Champion. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) said Champion was "transparently honest and impeccably honorable," and others praised him as "able" and "honorable." But Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neb.) held the vote up until after the committee could hear from Califano in person, so word was sent down Capitol Hill that his testimony was needed...