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Sophisticated lobbying has collaborated with an exquisitely subdivided system to subvert larger goals. "Congress is fragmented into 300 committees and subcommittees now," complains Joseph Califano, the just purged HEW Secretary. The committees almost inevitably grow into guardians of their specialties. Huge staffs, not the elected Congressmen, preside over the drafting of bills, establishing directions and priorities that should be set by leaders, not bureaucrats and clerks...
Carter's first victim was Califano, who was called to the Oval Office Wednesday evening. The President's Georgia Mafia gave Califano good marks for administering HEW, but accused him of being a big-spending liberal, a "slick operator" and "not a team player." Said a Carter aide: "Competence alone is not enough. There has to be loyalty." And not only to Carter; Califano had been at odds with Hamilton Jordan almost from the beginning. Califano has been faulted for not enthusiastically supporting Carter's bill to create a Department of Education separate from HEW. His case also...
...Joseph Califano was dismissed as Secretary of HEW because he was too independent, things may remain much the same under Patricia Roberts Harris, 55, whose colleagues at HUD consider her, with some admiration, every bit as "abrasive" and "pushy" as Califano. A strong-willed woman who fights hard within the bureaucracy for what she wants, Harris does differ from Califano in one important respect: if she loses a battle, she keeps quiet in public and joins in carrying out the Administration decision...
...been married 23 years to a Washington judge; they have no children. For relaxation, she likes to cook "everything from Chinese shrimp to strawberry pies." Standing the heat in the kitchen will serve her well at HEW...
Harvard received one of the largest of the 20 grants HEW awarded. The funding comes from a 1977 amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Association for Research Libraries lobbied the House and Senate appropriations committees for passage of the amendment, Williams said...