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...comments made during a week of almost total news blackout. Many higher-ups in the Administration have given their notice. Among those slated to leave: Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, HUD Secretary George Romney, White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Chief John Volpe. Ostentatiously absent from the round of meetings was White House Aide Dwight Chapin, who had been compromised by being tied into the Watergate scandal. "Chapin has got to go," declared a White House adviser. U.S. Treasurer Romana Banuelos would seem to be a likely target for dismissal...
...Development; Assistant Secretary Samuel Jackson, a black, might give blacks more hope for racially enlightened housing policies; Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, has been mentioned too. Also expected to leave, although there has been little talk of who might replace them, are Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Transportation Secretary John Volpe...
Labor Secretary James Hodgson denies that the agreement represents the use of employment quotas, a practice that President Nixon says he rejects. Hodgson asserts that the Administration is merely setting "goals." For many businessmen, faced with relentless Government pressure to hire precise numbers of certain minority-group members, the distinction between goals and quotas is often difficult to discern...
...fire it." That derisive opinion of federal employees may now have to be changed. For the past year a Government task force has been conducting the first survey ever made of output per man-hour by Uncle Sam's hirelings. Last week Labor Secretary James Hodgson announced that the results were "a pleasant surprise": the bureaucrats in Foggy Bottom and environs have been getting bigger productivity increases out of their workers than have bosses in private industry. Between 1967 and 1971, the report showed, productivity in the Federal Government rose an average of 2% a year, v. an average...
...What is most important," says Hodgson, "is that we now have a new and useful yardstick to help us improve our performance." Altogether, some 600 standards were devised to gauge efficiency in such Government operations as the minting of coins, distribution of Social Security checks, processing of FHA mortgage applications and printing of federal documents. They cover slightly more than half of the 2.6 million employees in the federal work force. The rest, including NASA scientists, FBI agents and the Supreme Court Justices, perform jobs whose productivity is still unmeasurable...