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...revised proposal, prepared by Walter J. Leonard, assistant to President Bok, was submitted to HEW on August 1. Leonard's office said yesterday that the revised plan will not be made public until sometime next week...
...press memorandum dated July 5, 1973, prepared by the office of Mr. Walker Leonard, special assistant to the President, Mr. Leonard states that among the points of Harvard's Affirmative Action Plan which "were incorrectly taken by HEW or were ironed out in oral discussions with HEW representatives" was the issue of "how many special interest groups, both minority and women, were consulted during the formulation." As co-president of the Graduate Women's Organization, I question this statement with regard to women's groups. Neither GWO nor any of the other legitimate Harvard women's groups which I have...
...November, 1972 and February, 1973, but these meetings, both initiated by the GWO, were hardly consultation sessions. We were never allowed to see any of the plans for the Affirmative Action Program until May 1, 1973, when we saw the final Plan -- after it had been submitted to HEW. We did make suggestions to Mr. Leonard during our discussion; indeed, HEW's objections to the Harvard Plan comprised many of the very points (e.g. failure to break down availability figures and goals by academic discipline and department or to set hiring goals which would offset underutilization of women and minorities...
...politicians and officials ranged from outrage to "So what?" AFL-CIO President George Meany called it "so fantastic as to be almost beyond belief. God bless the blunderers at Watergate. If they hadn't been so clumsy, America would never have known about things like this." Declared former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch, a longtime Nixon associate: "I'm literally astonished." Ousted Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel observed wryly that his problem was not being overheard at the White House but being heard at all. Nevertheless, he thought anybody talking to a President should be aware of any taping...
...Some of HEW's objections to Harvard's most recent affirmative action plan have already been ironed out in verbal discussions with agency representatives, Leonard said yesterday...