Word: hickelisms
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...Cabinet was hardly lolling abed either. Nixon scheduled the swearing-in ceremony for eleven of the twelve department heads for 8 a.m. (Interior Secretary Walter Hickel's confirmation was delayed by opposition from some Senate Democrats. He was sworn later in the week.) Perhaps to further his effort to boost the Cabinet's prestige, Nixon suggested that one of its members might run for President some day. After all, he pointed out, eight previous Presidents were Cabinet alumni.* But he warned: "If any of you is going to come through, we must get to work. It is time...
While Governor of an oil-rich state, Hickel has strenuously opposed higher petroleum import quotas. But Maine Democrat Edmund Muskie, whose state wants to offset New England's high fuel costs with a free-trade zone and a refinery for imported petroleum, won from Hickel a promise to reconsider the problem from a national viewpoint...
...week's end, even the thorniest conflict-of-interest problem facing Nixon's extraordinarily affluent Cabinet seemed to have been resolved to the Senate's satisfaction. As for Hickel, the Senators kept their prehearing promise of teaching the Alaskan millionaire exactly what was expected of him in his national post...
...Even as Hickel struggled for confirmation last week, outgoing Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall made a final bequest to conservationists. He set aside land in California, Alaska, Utah and Arizona for national parks and monuments...
...Johnson's press secretary, might better have called it "The Last Hurrahs." There were plenty: "The big question is what Senator McCarthy plans to do. When reporters ask, he doesn't say anything. But he does let them kiss his ring ... I offered myself to Governor Walter Hickel as a national monument. He took one look and said, I don't believe in conservation just for conservation's sake.' . . . All the new people want an office close to the President's. You should see them scramble. It's like fighting for a deck...