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...HEW officials denied any implication that the shift would mean a permanent slowdown in desegregation efforts; indeed centralization might in time speed up integration of welfare programs and of nursing homes. Unquestionably, though, it will result in at least a temporary pause while administrative gears are shifted. For Gardner, one of the ablest and most popular Administration figures on Capitol Hill, the shift promises nothing but trouble. Asked if it meant "transferring the kitchen across the street"-putting the heat on him instead of Howe-Gardner smiled wanly and replied: "I wouldn't be surprised...
...line departments. Unless the administration accedes, Rep. Goodell (R.N.Y) recently warned, they "may well kill off the whole thing." OEO has failed in these first three years to perform many of its most important tasks, but sacrificing the program to the Departments will only worsen the situation. HEW will be no more successful in coordinating the activities of other Departments and may not even feel the responsibility to do so. Eliminating OEO, officials lament, will mean the end of a period of "trying, testing, and learning...
Committees charged with president hunting usually aim high, often try for a nationally prominent figure without any notion of whether he would be interested. HEW Secretary John Gardner, who has shown no inclination to leave Government service, is at the top of nearly everybody's list. As sights are lowered plenty of names surface, since almost every professor or alumnus has his own idea of who might fill the bill. Johns Hopkins scanned 150 candidates before deciding nearly two years later on the State Department's Lincoln Gordon...
Earlier in the day, a Health, Education and Welfare official said at a general meeting that the Federal government was doing its share to promote the kind of community health programs first suggested by Dr. Farnsworth six years ago. Dr. Phillip R. Lee, assistant secretary of HEW for Health and Scientific Affairs, quoted extensively from a speech in which Dr. Farnsworth had suggested using college health services as model for community efforts
...N.S.A. is a worthy organization, and the Government acts in its own interest by supporting it, just as other countries support their student organizations. But the objective could be accomplished with no scandal if HEW handled the funds. Yet one wonders: If such an expenditure were proposed in Congress, would not Senators Tower and Eastland and Congressman Rivers be among the first to cry "socialism...