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Increasingly, the President seems isolated from other schools of thought and other individuals once close to him. HEW Secretary Robert Finch has been battered in the racial dispute. Liberals and moderates on the White House staff, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Leonard Garment and William Safire, are slipping. In retreat with them is the notion that the Administration must conciliate, must seek new ways to retrieve the disillusioned and the disinherited...
...course, Kirk was shrewdly playing on the ambiguities in the Administration's policy on desegregation. In defying the courts, he claimed to be acting in the spirit of Nixon's March 24 statement-and who was to say he was not? Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch last week sought to "clarify" the President's position by insisting that there would be "no backward motion" in integration, and he predicted that the number of black students in classes with whites (now 1,200,000) would double next fall. Yet even as Finch spoke, the Department...
...parakiting, the water skier becomes airborne when his trailing parachute pops open. High above Acapulco Bay, the Secretary was doing just fine in his first try at this bold new sport. Then the tow rope from the speedboat snapped, leaving ex-Paratrooper Robert Finch to plunge 150 ft. into the drink. "It was great for my education," said the HEW boss, "but not for my health and welfare...
...committee's decision was both tactical and practical. Mills recognized that welfare systems throughout the country are on the brink of collapse and need more than simple repairs. Also, he was caught off guard by the Nixon message, and suspected a political trap. When HEW Secretary Robert Finch began attacking the Ways and Means Committee in public statements for delaying the welfare bill, Mills came to believe that the Administration, with an eye to this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections, was more interested in a campaign issue than welfare reform. Mills thought that Nixon would fail...
...I.B.P. is illustrating the complexity of the environment and proving how one part invariably affects others. Even so, the final goal of accurately predicting the result of any specific action is still far in the future. As Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch said when he threw his support behind the program: "Comparatively speaking, the moon shot was easy...