Word: finches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprised to learn from your article on .Robert Finch [Dec. 13], that 1 was "ailing." I thought I felt fine...
Nixon intends Robert Finch, his closest friend, to be the central figure in domestic policy as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Finch is a "moderate" Republican, just like his boss. But he gets along well with California's right-wing extremists. He directed U.S. Sen. George Murphy's campaign in 1964, and he ran comfortably on Ronald Reagan's ticker for Lieutenant-Governor. Perhaps both men have decided that the cities deserve more than tax incentives to lure business into the ghettoes, but they have no indicated any change of heart since the election. Nixon's biggest contribution...
After the election, there was little doubt that Finch, if he wished, could become a member of the Cabinet. The question that remained was one of his own political ambitions. What he really wanted was to return to California and succeed the ailing Senator George Murphy in 1970. But Murphy told Finch that he intended to run for a second term. Blocked at home, Finch decided to cast his lot once more with Nixon...
...Thus Finch may be confronting the entire spectrum of problems spawned by urban blight, racial tension and social decay. It will be the new Secretary's task to integrate Great Society programs already in being with the innovations that Nixon hopes to achieve...
...Facing Finch is a vast bureaucracy comprising 107,000 employees and a budget of $44 billion. Some of the problems and programs are: - Welfare. Presently a disastrous $4 billion program, surrounded by problems and proposals for change (see TIME ESSAY...