Word: finches
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SOON after becoming Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Robert Finch confided to an interviewer: "I am the most liberal member of this Cabinet.'' That was not the only distinction possessed by Richard Nixon's youngest and most attractive department chief, now 44. Finch's almost filial relationship with the President, going back nearly 25 years, was the most personal claimed by any Cabinet officer. He had the most promising political future in the group. For all these great expectations, Finch has been the most abused and frustrated high official in Washington. Last week he became...
Rescued. How Finch will fit into the tightly structured White House staff (TIME cover, June 8) remains to be seen. As he stood near the President, weary and crumpled, Finch hardly looked like someone who had just advanced professionally. Instead, he was a man who had been rescued and given safe haven-by the vessel that had rammed him in the first place. But he was still gamely loyal. "It's a higher calling," he quipped, "but a lower salary...
...termed Operation Talk. Herb Klein, Nixon's communications director, sent out the word last week that officials were to appear on as many television programs as possible. Cabinet officers and White House aides were inviting meetings with groups of students, faculty members and others. Tricia Nixon had two Finch College demonstrators into the White House for a chat. The press conference, only the second this year, and Nixon's sunrise socializing were part of the same Administration tactic...
...familiar volatility of such campuses as Harvard and Berkeley, to more conservative enclaves. At the University of Nebraska in the heart of "Nixon country," students occupied the ROTC headquarters. The University of Arizona, like many other U.S. campuses, had its first taste ever of student activism. Manhattan's Finch College, Tricia Nixon's alma mater, went on strike. At California's Whittier College, 30% of the student body angrily protested the policies of Richard Nixon, its most famous graduate. At the Duke University Law School, Alumnus Nixon's portrait was removed from the wall of the moot courtroom and stored...
...manpower resources, and let the resources catch up with the overburdened cart-or to take the time to breed more medical horses. That means waiting years for the country's health education system to produce many thousands more doctors and tens of thousands more paramedical personnel. Secretary Finch sincerely believes that the modest expansions of federal health programs that he has submitted to Congress are important steps in the right direction, but will not commit himself to true national insurance. His chief assistant for health affairs, Under Secretary Roger O. Egeberg, thinks that some such plan may very well...