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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...
...Lieutenant Governor was almost immediately at odds with Reagan and his retinue, who resented Finch's independence and his closeness to Nixon. "I'm sure," Finch once remarked, "that some of them think I go home and get on the phone with Dick every night." Finch bitterly opposed cuts in aid to mental hospitals, and initiated legislation to set up a state Department of Human Resources Development, pulling together such social-service functions as job training and the poverty program. As an ex officio member of the University of California's board of regents, he frequently angered the Governor...
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...