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...give mass lie detector tests to employees of the State Department as a means of finding security leaks). Haldeman now regrets that he did not challenge Nixon more "frontally" to check his dark impulses. But he also notes wryly that other Nixon associates who had done so, including HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Communications Director Herbert Klein, quickly lost influence at the White House...
...division, funded by a two-year grant from the Administration on Aging, a branch of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), will study alternatives to long-term health care for the elderly, including the financing, budgeting and organization of such programs...
...formula for being a Cabinet officer, he says. But he has a rule that many predecessors did not have. "You have to decide," he says. "Then do it. Don't let problems fester." For more than a decade the people at HEW hid in their bureaucratic maze, pushed problems aside, anything to avoid a clamoring public...
...Flood's involvement in the financing of a $65.1 million, 20-story addition to Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital. In 1975, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare rejected the hospital's request for federal funds to build the wing. But Flood bypassed HEW by attaching a $14.5 million grant for the hospital to a bill appropriating antipoverty funds for the federal Community Services Administration. Later Flood urged the hospital to hire Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg's law firm in Philadelphia to arrange a bond issue that raised an added $39.5 million for the wing...
...HEW officials insist the program is vital to maintain public confidence in the welfare system's integrity. Promises HEW Secretary Joseph Califano: "We'll do this with delicacy and care," severely limiting access to names of individuals on welfare. HEW Deputy Inspector General Charles Ruff, a former Watergate special prosecutor, acknowledges that search of personnel files can constitute a breach of individual privacy. But, asks Ruff, "is it an unreasonable invasion of privacy? We say that it is not." HEW plans to expand Match to include all federal employees and to help states start their own mini-Match. Under pressure...