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Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano, known as a driver when he was Lyndon Johnson's domestic-policy chief, began shaking things up in his new post almost immediately-if in small ways. He decided that signatures on staff memos should appear on the bottom instead of the top; he dismissed as inadequate the daily four-page "green sheet" news summary prepared for the HEW Secretary and ordered up expanded editions of as many as 20 pages. He also dismissed one-third of his own staff, figuring he could get along with about 100 people...
Tough Luck. Joseph Califano, the prospective HEW Secretary, reaffirmed his opposition to using federal funds to pay for any woman's abortion. "What you're saying is that if she is poor and can't afford a private abortion, then it's just tough luck, isn't it?" asked Oregon Republican Bob Packwood...
Whether a woman is "rich or poor," Califano insisted, "abortion is wrong and federal funds should not be used for providing abortions." Califano said, however, that he would carry out laws under which about 300,000 abortions a year are financed by the Medicaid program...
Vance, Brown, Harris, Califano, Blumenthal are all names that may still be in type in the dusty galleys up at the Government Printing Office. At least nobody has trouble spelling them...
...Carter transition office. She used to be administrative assistant to the late Democratic Party chairman John Bailey, a fixture in the New Frontier and Great Society. Mrs. Sweeney is now helping to restart the Democratic engine. And Evelyn Irons, who went to the White House with Joe Califano in 1965 and worked for James Schlesinger through the Republican years, will journey back to her old White House haunts as secretary to the new energy czar...