Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clifford took office in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive, and his first job included evaluating a request from the generals for 200,000 more troops. For two weeks, he examined all the angles with the same care that had made him one of Washington's most successful lawyers. Finally, he decided that a further buildup was madness. A subsequent trip to Saigon confirmed his suspicion that South Viet Nam's government wanted no part of a peace that would oblige them to risk political concessions and curtail the comforts of U.S. military protection and cash...
...would like to shift Operation Head Start, one of the few major successes of the war on poverty, to HEW. The poverty program's effort to furnish legal aid to the poor may be assigned to the Justice Department. Nixon and Moynihan would also like to scrap the Job Corps, which they consider inefficient. But he would need congressional approval for such steps-sanction that would not be easily obtained...
...legislation, Nixon intends to use executive orders and existing programs whenever possible. His approach was aptly summed up by Robert Finch, a longtime Nixon friend who is resigning his post as Lieutenant Governor of California to become the new Administration's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. "Our job," Finch told newsmen last week, "is to rationalize and implement the legislation now on the books...
Alaska Governor Walter Hickel also stirred controversy when discussing his new job as Interior Secretary. "I think we have had a policy of conservation for conservation's sake," he said. "Just to withdraw a large area for conservation purposes and lock it up for no reason doesn't have any merit." His statement immediately evoked the image of a reckless exploitation of natural resources...
...Former OEO Chief Sargent Shriver tended to "oversell and underperform," particularly in handling the Job Corps and community action...