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When the Administration took office, it seemed that Finch's troubles would be -like those of any HEW Secretary -financial and administrative, rather than political and ideological. HEW is a bureaucratic monster, with some 250 separate programs and a personnel roster of 107,000. Finch, given his pick of several Cabinet jobs, hesitated not at all on which to take: "HEW is where the action...
...Finch's critics were to argue later that he never quite mastered his sprawling empire. Continuing turmoil, particularly within the Health section, was a constant problem (see MEDICINE). But Finch brought to the job a determination to reform and modernize HEW. Though firmly positioned in the progressive wing of the G.O.P., he is also a Nixon team player. "Our theme is going to be pragmatism," he announced. Translated, that meant no quick requests for extra billions and grandiose new programs. It did mean innovative proposals like the welfare reform scheme, which finally became Administration policy after much internal debate...
...THINK of myself as a career public servant," says Elliot Richardson, 49, the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer named last week to succeed Robert Finch as the boss of HEW. He knows the premises; he served as HEW Assistant Secretary in the Eisenhower Administration and turned down the HEW undcr-secretaryship under Nixon, explaining that "I had already been through all that." Instead, he has been the No. 2 man in the State Department, where he has displayed a talent for management that will be exercised to the full in picking up the pieces at diffuse and demoralized...
Actor-turned-Politician George Murphy, 67, had an unorthodox opponent: Norton Simon, a 63-year-old multimillionaire (Hunt Foods, Canada Dry, McCall Corp.). He jumped in hours before the filing deadline after failing to persuade HEW Secretary Robert Finch to take Murphy on. A pensive and quixotic man, Simon came across poorly in public but spent more than $1.5 million of his own on a well-executed TV, radio and newspaper advertising campaign. He took 33% of the vote in losing. "The reason I went in was not impulsive," Simon told TIME afterward. "It was frustration with...
...unhealthiest places in Washington these days is the Health section of the sprawling Department of Health, Education and Welfare. And perhaps the most emotionally disturbed place within Health is the National Institute of Mental Health. Last week, just before the departure of HEW Secretary Robert Finch (see THE NATION), the institute underwent the bureaucratic equivalent of a psychotic breakdown. Its director, Dr. Stanley Yolles, 51, was summarily fired, and announced that he was seeking early retirement from Government service...