Word: counseled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former Harvard administrator suddenly find himself embroiled in arcane issues and possible scandals like the Freedom of Information Act, the GAO, the Inspector General's Office, the General Counsel's Office, and the Justice Department, not to mention the "Souza case"? And written up in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek? The story is long and more than a little twisted, but perhaps indicative of the slow road to the top of the American political heap...
...from 1963 to 1976 for the Senate Government Operations Committee's permanent subcommittee on investigations. In 1976, he became HEW's first chief investigator; above all, he says, he wanted to maintain his independence from the rest of the department, especially its Office of the General Counsel (HEW's chief lawyer...
...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...
Walsh was upset. In his experience, he 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...
...hearings on Hale Champion's nomination as Undersecretary. Most of the questions were routine. But then Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), chairman of the health subcommittee, asked Champion about the Souza case and Walsh's resignation. Champion replied that Walsh had simply been instructed to keep the General Counsel's Office informed of his activities, not to actually "clear his work" with the counsel. Champion also said that until the HEW Inspector General was installed in the then empty post--Congress had only created the post last year--Walsh was to report...