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...approve. He elevated three of his Cabinet appointees to the title of White House Counsellor, and gave them broader authority. Caspar W. Weinberger will not only be HEW Secretary but will also supervise all of the "human resources" functions now scattered in various departments. James T. Lynn, the HUD Secretary, will administer all community-development programs, and Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture, has a new mandate over all "natural resources" activities. Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff has warned that any attempt by the President to reorganize the Executive Branch by decree poses a constitutional issue...
...overly sentimental--in fact, critics of the film have claimed the environment it etches is harsher than what they personally experienced in similar times and places and table-turning social truths more it powerfully effective. Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield stand out as Kevin Hooks' parents: Martin (Hud) Ritt directs with surprising force and tact...
JAMES T. LYNN, 45, who replaces George Romney at Housing and Urban Development, has no experience in housing, but he may not need any. The scandal-ridden department faces severe budget cuts. As a White House staffer sardonically remarked: "We could rent out offices in the HUD building. Nothing is going to be going on there anyway." Lynn speaks of moving toward the goal of decent housing for every American family, but he is not likely to be allowed to go far in that direction. A Cleveland lawyer with big corporate clients, he asked for a job in the Nixon...
...after a long period," said a Nixon aide in one of the few 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...
...Cabinet job, it seemed, was Nelson Rockefeller; last week he told the President that he would prefer to stay on in New York and, possibly, run for a sixth term as Governor. Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, is a possibility for head of HUD. Astronaut Frank Borman, a favorite of Nixon's, is a possible replacement for Volpe at the Transportation Department...