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...House has allowed most of President Carter's nominees--with the striking exception of Theodore Sorensen and Paul Warnke--to be confirmed with hardly a hitch, it came as no surprise that the Senate Finance Committee voted last week to recommend the confirmation of former Harvard financial vice president Hale Champion as Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare...
Standing in the marbled corridor outside Room 2227 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building during a break in his confirmation hearing last Wednesday morning, Hale Champion was at ease. Surrounded by a half dozen Washington correspondents for newspapers like The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe, the former Harvard financial vice president answered questions he must have heard five or six times before, always retaining his easy good humor and calm assurance. As an ex-reporter, he seemed to understand why they had to keep asking the same questions, but as a newly nominated government official...
...little more than a year ago, Hale Champion was a loser. He ran in the March 9 Massachusetts primary as a delegate to the Democratic national convention, pledged to Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.). Although he came in second in the Mass primary, just slightly behind Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and well ahead of Jimmy Carter, Champion couldn't pull enough votes to get on the delegate's train to New York. One might have thought that Champion's political career would end there. But in the wake of Jimmy Carter's march through the primaries...
...Hale Champion has made the big time. He eats lunch most afternoons with Joseph A. Califano Jr., the Secretary of Health. Education and Welfare. Congressional committees anxiously await his testimony on welfare reform. When he emerged from a Senate Finance committee hearing on his confirmation as the Undersecretary of HEW last Wednesday morning, half a dozen reporters pounced on him in the corridor to ask questions about his testimony...
...When Hale Champion, Harvard's former financial vice president, was tapped in January for a top spot in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, everyone at Harvard agreed that while the University would miss him, Champion's unique combination of financial expertise and liberal attitudes would be great for the country...