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Carter's aides argued against giving a job to Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan because she had no administrative experience. But the talent hunters were willing to overlook similar gaps in the backgrounds of some men who were tapped. Although he was a top staff man for Lyndon Johnson, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano had never managed anything but his desk before becoming the boss of 145,700 people in his current post...
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...
Since January 20, Champion has worked as Undersecretary in a suite of offices next to Califano's on the sixth floor of HEW's newest building in Washington...
Meanwhile, HEW's chief investigator, John J. Walsh, resigned from the department because he thought Califano was trying to slow down Walsh's investigation of Medicare fraud in California, particularly his probe of Flora Souza, president of Home Health, Inc. in San Jose...
...HEW's number-two man, Champion is supposed to manage HEW's budget, which is the federal government's largest. But his influence extends to all parts of HEW, something about which Harvard's administration cannot be unhappy...