Word: hecklers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Outgoing HHS Secretary Margaret Heckler said that "knowledge and life- style" factors such as smoking, alcohol, diet and obesity accounted for much of the health gap. A startling 10,909 excess deaths resulted from homicide or accidents, which Heckler deemed a health matter because more than half were related to alcohol or drug abuse. Ohio's Democratic Congressman Louis Stokes criticized the study, arguing that it failed to point out that "Reagan budget cuts have had a major impact on the health of minorities." Although Heckler proposed no new remedies, she set aside a $3 million monitoring fund to ensure...
Ronald Reagan hates firing people. So instead of forthrightly dismissing his Secretary of Health and Human Services, he offered Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler a "promotion" to Ambassador to Ireland. Her first reaction was to call the job "a nice one--for someone else." Only after a 50-minute meeting with the President did she accept. Reagan then stood beside a grim Heckler at a press conference to denounce the "malicious gossip" that he had dumped...
...truth, the President likes the former Massachusetts Congresswoman who has run the monstrous HHS (current budget: $316 billion) since 1983. His hand was forced by Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who detested Heckler's idiosyncratic management style. He and others complained about her lateness at Cabinet meetings, lack of preparation and indecisiveness. The Secretary's defenders praised her successes, like reducing Medicare cost inflation, and her efforts to protect the poor and elderly against budget cutters. Heckler will take up residence in Dublin early next year. Her departure leaves Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole as the lone woman Cabinet member...
...Heckler, after leaving the White House, ignored reporters' attempts to question her. A spokeswoman said the secretary would have no immediate comment on the session with Reagan...
...about $15,000 a year and the loss of a department with 145,000 employees and, as she was fond of saying, the largest budget in the world with the exception of the entire U.S. and Soviet budgets--$330 billion. "That's a lovely position--for someone else," Heckler said of the ambassadorship last month...