Word: finch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Regarding the speculation as to the future of Mr. Robert Finch [Nov. 29], close adviser to President-elect Nixon: I have been a Robert Finch watcher since my freshman days at Inglewood High, Inglewood, Calif. ('43), when I observed this talented and qualified senior from afar. The graduating-class book of that year is a chronicle of the young Robert Finch-everything from president of the senior class and letterman in sports to star of the senior-class play (Death Takes a Holiday). But my most vivid recollection is, I am sure, one of his very first quotes...
California's Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch was a good bet to become overseer of Nixon's entire domestic program, possibly as Secretary of HEW or HUD. Campaign Manager John Mitchell is a fair guess to become Attorney General. The Nixon camp leaked the word that G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, 60, will probably be sacked. Nixon believes that the Republicans need a more activist, youthful image, but the move will cause bitter feelings among party regulars...
Nixon Advisers Robert Finch and John Mitchell, along with Lawyer Charles Rhyne, who headed Citizens for Nixon-Agnew this fall, are in the running for Attorney General. Finch, however, is in a delicate political dilemma. Now lieutenant governor of California, he has built an impressive constituency among moderate Republicans and independents at home. He would like to run for the U.S. Senate or the governorship in 1970, but both George Murphy and Ronald Reagan seem to like their current roles, and will probably seek reelection. Finch, 43, must either return home to tend to his political power base or come...
Talent Search. Whatever Finch's future, his role in Nixon's current talent search is crucial. The President-elect, closeted with Finch, Mitchell and Assistant Bob Haldeman, is working his way through two tomes, each as thick as a Washington telephone book, to mold his Administration. Prepared over the past seven months by Dr. Glenn Olds, former president of Massachusetts' Springfield College, the black-bound volumes contain scouting reports on some 1,500 possibilities for the Government's top 300 jobs. It remained to be seen how far Nixon will bow to political considerations...
...Succeed details the rise of one J. Pierrepont Finch from nowhere to family and fortune, aided by a get-rich-quick book plus a bravely installed deus ex machina. This time around, one Pope Brock gives life to Finch, and he does so with a modicum of class. Brighter lights, on the other hand, shine to every side, not the least of which is Timothy Hall as J. B. Biggley, the boss of World-Wide Wickets where Finch is employed. Hall handles a considerably larger portion of the show's laughs than did Rudy Vallee in the B'way original...