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After Nixon won, Gray was not selected for any Washington appointment until, a bit desperately, he filled out a routine application. It was forwarded to Finch, then the HEW Secretary. He hired Gray as his executive assistant, and Gray proved to be just the kind of administrator that the less organized Finch needed. Gray generally worked standing up at a high draftsman's type of table rather than a desk. He ate lunch in the office, jogged...
...take Gray long to demonstrate his feelings about landing on Nixon's team. Gray gave a remarkable speech to the officials he supervised at HEW. "Each one of us is here because Richard Nixon was elected to the high office of President of the United States," he said. "Obviously, we are a chosen few, an elite group. We must be dedicated and devoted to the concept that our Republican President will be a great President and that he will be reelected. Above all other qualities of character that we hold near and dear, we must have deep, abiding, sincere loyalty...
When Gray left HEW in January 1970, the paperwork at HEW bogged down, and Finch developed a reputation as an inept administrator. Gray became an Assistant Attorney General, mainly at the urging of Mardian, a right-wing ideologue who had also worked with him at HEW. Gray impressed his superiors, Mitchell and Kleindienst, while heading the Justice Department's Civil Division. When Mitchell moved over to Nixon's re-election committee and Kleindienst became Attorney General, Gray was designated Deputy Attorney General...
...clear that he holds no notable qualifications for the post. After a 20-year career as an officer in the Navy, Gray practiced law in Connecticut, dealing primarily in wills, taxes and estates rather than crime. He joined the Nixon Administration in 1969, first as an executive assistant at HEW, later as an Assistant Attorney General under John Mitchell. Moreover, his subservience to the Nixon Administration is so complete that it is all but certain that if he is approved, any future Democratic Administration would replace him. That would turn the FBI directorship into the kind of political-patronage post...
...Commissioner of Education used to be regarded as the Federal Government's chief spokesman for learning. About eight months ago, however, Sidney P. Marland Jr. stepped up to become an Assistant Secretary of HEW, and President Nixon did not nominate a new successor until last week. His choice: John R. Ottina, 41, a seasoned administrator who has had little firsthand experience in education. After earning his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Southern California in 1964, he did teach math for two years in a public high school in his native Los Angeles. But then he became...