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...alphabetic menu. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, when chairman of Bendix Corp., was the highest paid Cabinet member, with roughly $600,000 in salary and benefits for 1976. But he owned two singularly inexpensive cars: a 1973 Ford Pinto and a 1975 Honda. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano earned $505,490 from his Washington law firm, about twice what Secretary of State Cyrus Vance drew from his law firm on Wall Street. But Vance's assets-six Es, two Ds, three Cs, one B and two As (at least $750,000 and possibly well into the millions) beat...
Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano discovered as much when he took a shopping list of items he wanted to the President. Califano left, remarked a White House adviser, with an "empty basket." The Environmental Protection Agency put together a 100-page appeal for more money and cheekily sprinkled it with quotes from Carter campaign speeches calling for more spending on the environment. The President was not moved. Patricia Harris, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, asked for more funds to expand a program of subsidized housing for the poor. She too was turned down. Says top White House...
...answer the question, HEW's new Secretary, Joseph Califano, quickly assembled a panel of experts, chaired by Dr. John H. Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. During briefings by health officials, the panel was presented with a persuasive statistical argument: deaths from Guillain-Barré had occurred in about one out of every million high-risk people vaccinated. By contrast, there were 1,260 deaths per million high-risk people who came down with A/Victoria flu last year. In other words, the chance that an uninoculated person would die from A/Victoria flu was many times greater than that an inoculated person...
...Hoopla. While giving the go-ahead for inoculations, Califano left no doubt that the Carter Administration is anxious to avoid the mistakes made by its predecessor. He emphasized that there would be none of the hoopla that marked last fall's inoculation effort. Nor would anyone beyond the elderly and the chronically ill be encouraged to get the mixed shots against A/Victoria. Finally, in what seemed a move to disassociate the new Administration from the whole swine flu fiasco, Califano asked for the resignation of the respected veteran director of Atlanta's Center for Disease Control, Dr. David Sencer...
Action by Carter on some more campaign promises is coming soon. As a start in reorganizing the Executive Branch, he plans to consolidate the energy agencies by late February into a Cabinet department headed by James Schlesinger. The President has directed HEW Secretary Joseph Califano to draw up a package of welfare reforms by May 1. But Carter has decided not to make good on two other promises this year: tax reform because of its complexity, and national health insurance because of its cost, which might upset his hopes of balancing the budget...