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However, John G. Bynoe, director of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) office that will conduct the review, said this week that the officials will attempt to be fair with Harvard and help the University "find its way" rather than use its clout to force Harvard to make immediate drastic reforms...
...President's behalf, to meet more regularly and more formally. Until recently, the committee was run almost entirely by Kissinger, who often conducted business with other members by telephone. The committee's members now are mostly deputy department heads, but Ford is considering giving the body more clout by appointing full Cabinet members. In exchange for his strengthening the 40 Committee, Ford may ask Congress to repeal the 1974 law that requires him to tell several congressional subcommittees of all covert CIA operations and certify the need for them. Former CIA Director William Colby charges that Congressmen have...
After a series of unsuccessful efforts to clean up the machinery of government--Defense Department and NASA contracting, conflict of interest problems, questionable land deals, tax evasion--Mollenhoff resigned in May, 1970, frustrated by his lack of clout and effectiveness. "I had never realized before," he reflected in the interview, "that even though you have a title and an office in the White House, you can get boxed out to the point of having no authority or influence. One had to be on the inside to get the full flavor of the enormous power and great reverence for the President...
...House shrewdly decided against any immediate attempt to override. Instead, they mounted their effective attack on wobbly Republicans and conservative Democrats during the long recess. "We unleashed everybody," says Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill. "Every labor organization, every education organization, every health organization with clout...
...council's potential clout comes from its base of more than 500 million non-Roman Catholic Christians round the world, but the ecumenical elite that runs it has only the loosest links with that increasingly restive constituency. Moreover, the council has been accused of "selective indignation," flogging capitalists in general and the U.S. in particular while ignoring evils elsewhere...