Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked the audience to "bear with me while I falter and stumble at times," then talked his way into the lead item. Like most of the rest of the 60-minute program, it was about his arrival at KTLA. He ran footage of tributes from HEW Secretary Robert Finch, Senator George Murphy ("Tom is the only real threat to John Wayne") and Mayor Sam Yorty ("We didn't want to lose him") He traded compliments with KTLA Sportscaster Tom Harmon...
Presidential Rebuke. The Senator also objected for a time to the nomination of Creed Black, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, as HEW Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs. At first, Dirksen said no because the News had opposed his re-election last fall. Later he relented when Senator Charles Percy intervened...
...embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen is going along with American Medical Association opposition to the selection...
...want to shake them up." One of the most important alterations he made in the Johnson budget was to add $25 million for experimental education, enough to fund 15 to 20 projects. "The name of the game is learning, not teaching," says Ed Meade, a high-ranking HEW consultant on loan from the Ford Foundation. "Our focus is going to be to find out how kids learn...
...Health, Education and Welfare is the most diversified bureaucracy in Washington. Entire governments in many other countries are more limited in scope. An industrialist would probably call it a conglomerate. A systems analyst would call it Mission Impossible. Robert Finch undoubtedly has his own phrase. A partial list of HEW's programs and institutions...