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...clarification came until after Nixon had installed Robert Finch as his new secretary of HEW. As Lieutenant Governor of California, Finch had opposed many of Ronald Reagan's conservative desegregation policies, and his appointment was a quiet relief to civil rights leaders and Congressional liberals. A much bigger relief came in late January, when Finch cut off Federal funds to five Southern districts that had "grossly ignored" Federal desegregation rulings...
Winton ("Red") Blount, the incoming Postmaster General, keeps a pet pig named Elvira on his 60-acre spread near Montgomery, Ala. The Blounts also have a summer place on nearby Lake Martin, where they entertain friends and family aboard a Chinese junk. Robert Finch, who will be Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the new Cabinet, sometimes sports socks with holes the size of a half-dollar. He turned up recently at a dressy function in a green shirt that he had worn all day working around the house. Says a friend: "I think he puts on clothes just...
Community Service. Quite a few of the new Cabinet members are no strangers to Washington. Stans served as Eisenhower's budget director from 1958 to 1960. Finch was executive secretary to California Congressman Norris Poulson in the late 1940s, and administrative assistant to Vice President Nixon a decade later. Melvin Laird, the incoming Secretary of Defense, has been an eight-term Congressman from Wisconsin, and has become a highly influential Republican in the House. Secretary of State-designate William Rogers was Eisenhower's last Attorney General; during the Kennedy and Johnson years, he kept a handsome house...
...many there are some mixed feelings about tearing up roots and coming to Washington. One of the Finch offspring at first objected: "Oh, gee, do we really have to move?" Mrs. Kennedy fears that the Washington whirl will be like "living in a fishbowl." Lenore Romney admits that when she realized she had to leave Michigan "I sat down and had a good cry with my daughter," but now she is looking forward to the challenge. "Washington," she says, "is more an opportunity than a place." That is true enough. With all of the capital's social problems...
...education. He made his way to California as an engine-room wiper on a tanker. He went to work for an uncle's law firm in Los Angeles, studying at night, and in 1927 passed the bar exam. Cooper built a thriving law firm. He defended Dr. Bernard Finch who, with his mistress Carole Tregoff, killed Finch's wife. Two juries were deadlocked and three trials held before Finch and Tregoff were convicted. They were saved from the gas chamber, and connoisseurs of courtroom melodrama still recall the lawyer's re-enactment of Finch's supposed...