Word: johnson
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...credentials to try and cope with HEW, that man is Joseph A. Califano Jr.?the ebullient, energetic and experienced Secretary of HEW. An impassioned advocate of federal programs, he devised many of them as President Lyndon Johnson's chief domestic adviser. Yet if he is a big spender and a master bureaucrat, he is also a canny enough politician to know that limits of some kind have been reached. Says Califano: "I am trying to make the department a symbol of the manageability of government. I want to deliver the services that have been set up to the people...
When the Democrats returned to power with President John Kennedy in 1960, higher spending for HEW was on the agenda. Regulations were eased, and the cost of aid to families with dependent children ?the biggest welfare program?began to soar. When Johnson became President, HEW was transformed by the biggest growth of federal programs in the history of the nation...
...Johnson's Administration, programs were in place that would dramatically change the nature of the country: Medicare and Medicaid, aid to elementary, secondary and higher education, civil rights, treatment of drug addicts. Scarcely any of L.B.J.'s programs were eliminated by Richard Nixon, or even cut back, and many new ones were added. In 1974, for example, HEW took over state programs for the aged, blind and disabled. The resulting Supplementary Security Income program is now a $2.9 billion item in the budget. Regardless of what party controls the White House, HEW has achieved a considerable measure of independence...
...Street lawyer before firing off a presumptuous letter in 1961 seeking a job from Cyrus Vance, then Secretary Robert McNamara's general counsel at the Defense Department. He became a Vance assistant and was spotted by McNamara. At 29, Califano was made a general Pentagon troubleshooter. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson lured Califano away to become his own special assistant. Ensconced in the White House and loving every minute of it, Califano helped shape many of the Great Society programs that he is now in charge of executing...
...process. Copey styled himself Harvard's "reader-in-ordinary." When he gave his readings, in a dry Maine accent and a gravelly baritone, he required absolute silence from an intimidated audience. He was about as 18th-century as a man could be; his academic life largely centered in Samuel Johnson and that circle. He had an iron whim and he did as he darned well pleased...