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Rapidly following up on his transfer of Robert Finch from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to the White House, Nixon last week drafted another Cabinet officer, Labor Secretary George Shultz, to head the Office of Management and Budget, which comes to life in the White House on July 1. The creation of the OMB, together with a new Domestic Affairs Council, had been announced in March. Now Nixon's choice of Shultz to head the OMB, together with his transfer of Finch, makes the organizational changes more important than they appeared to be at first. The other...
...Shultz. who has risen from his peers on the Cabinet to gain Nixon's total confidence as both an adviser and a doer (see box, following page). A Republican moderate who is liberal by this Administration's standards, Shultz is both a friend and potential ally of Finch's. Together they seem likely to introduce a new element within the White House, a counterweight to the relatively narrow conservatism of a number of the present top White House staffers.*Their recruitment in tandem indicates Nixon's realization that he has not been as well served...
Ehrlichman is not primarily an idea man. Nor is he an expert in any one domestic field. He is likely, therefore, to have competition from both Shultz and Finch, each of whom has had more experience in Government than Lawyer Ehrlichman from Seattle. Finch notes that he will be involved with a "whole passel of things," including "what our agenda of social needs ought to be once we get the Viet Nam War out of the way." In establishing the two new bodies, Nixon was obviously trying to make the vast federal bureaucracy more responsive to White House policy...
DESPITE Robert Finch's many problems in running the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, he requested six more months in that post when the President asked him to join the White House staff. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress, Finch said: "I told him you have some good periods and bad periods in a department that big, and we had some things coming up. I told him I wanted to go out on the upbeat. He wouldn't accept it. He said he had some other moves he wanted to make, and he felt...
...move, it developed last week, was the firing of James Allen as Commissioner of Education-a decision made in the White House but ex- ecuted by Finch in his last days as HEW Secretary. Many HEW staffers were already restive over the department's inability to withstand conservative pressure from the White House; had Finch stayed on after Allen's dismissal, a further result of that pressure, his position in HEW would have been further undermined...