Word: finches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen is going along with American Medical Association opposition to the selection...
...enter a special election for Congress. Last week he handily beat Democrat John K. Van de Kamp, 64,675 to 48,933, in a runoff in California's 27th District to replace Republican Ed Reinecke, who took over as the state's Lieutenant Governor when Robert Finch moved to Washington as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The sprawling 27th now stretches from suburban Los Angeles northward to rural Kern County. Young Barry ran far ahead of his father's 1964 showing in the district...
Reagan should not have expected a rubber stamp. Even during the campaign, Finch had demonstrated his independence. He opposed, for example, the vote-catching anti-pornography legislation that Reagan vigorously supported. "Finch has adroitly managed to establish an aura of independence without really differing consequentially," said Assembly Democratic Leader Jesse Unruh, with a trace of admiration. "And that takes some doing...
During last year's campaign, Finch was almost constantly at Nixon's side, providing counsel on every key decision. The President's admiration for Finch's political acumen is almost unbounded, and he sometimes refers to him as a "political poet...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare is the most diversified bureaucracy in Washington. Entire governments in many other countries are more limited in scope. An industrialist would probably call it a conglomerate. A systems analyst would call it Mission Impossible. Robert Finch undoubtedly has his own phrase. A partial list of HEW's programs and institutions...