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...When I witness Republican leaders [May 2], such as Finch and Nixon, supporting, and even augmenting types of public assistance which the G.O.P. would clearly have labeled "Communistic" 25 years ago (some yet do so) I have renewed faith that the world is becoming a more humane place. However, I wonder if these programs, and the people they were designed to help, might not be much better off today if the Republicans had come to their aid earlier with the same verve and enthusiasm...
...Nixon food-stamp program came close to being shelved-at least for this year. In March, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch, together with Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, submitted the food-stamp proposal to the President. Fine, said Nixon, but where will we get the money? Though the President planned an attack on hunger in 1971, there was no room in his tight budget for the millions of dollars needed to start the program in 1970. As months passed, the hunger question became a prickly issue in the White House. Some advisers sided...
...MAIN defender of the permanent government's interests is Robert H. Finch, who apparently has had some influence on President Nixon. Finch's Department of Health, education, and Welfare is the top purchaser of university research, and Finch has consistently opposed legislation that would aggravate the government's relations with the university...
...testimony before the Green committee April 18, he said that the government was not equipped to "play cop by cutting off funds" to universities with disorders. In an article in the Washington Post May 8, David Broder said that Finch "disagrees with last week's tough denunciations of militant students by Vice President Agnew, Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and Justice Department aides." Broder said that Finch believes that setting up "the federal government as a regulatory agency would be a mistake...
...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...