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...Comfort. Mrs. Coretta King, the widow of Ray's victim, shunned public ceremonies after placing a cross of red and white flowers on her husband's crypt in Atlanta. A personal note of sympathy from President Nixon was delivered by Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Robert Finch, who stopped off in Atlanta for nearly an hour en route to Key Biscayne for a conference on domestic ills with the President. But little comfort for King's followers emerged from the meeting. With inflation and the need to slash government spending overshadowing other problems in Nixon...
...harsh talk about campus unrest, Nixon was unexpectedly mild in his statement on college disturbances released last week. At his direction, Secretary Finch merely dispatched, a letter to college administrators, pointing out that there is in existence a statute that cuts off federal aid to demonstrators who have been convicted of breaking the law. Given the strong current of public feeling against the demonstrators, the President could probably have done little less. He could, however, have done a great deal more, and those who hoped for a more repressive policy would undoubtedly be disappointed. The student message is, in fact...
...Robert H. Finch of HEW; George Romney, Housing and Urban Development; George Shultz, Labor; Clifford Hardin, Agriculture; Maurice Stans, Commerce; John A. Volpe, Transportation; and John Mitchell, Justice...
...format calls for the subject to leave the set during the last commercial break. Then the camera pans past his empty chair, and the two interviewers sum up whatever news they may have coaxed from him and expose any equivocations. Robert Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was on his way out but still within earshot when Evans noted that on the subject of federal welfare standards, "we got a lot of gobbledygook...
...Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Farmer will be a key adviser to HEW Secretary Robert Finch on urban affairs. One of his priority tasks will be to establish liaison between the Administration and the strident young blacks who distrust government generally, but particularly a Republican government...