Word: labor
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...academicians in the Cabinet, Chancellor Clifford Hardin of the University of Nebraska (Agriculture) and George Shultz, dean of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business (Labor), made their marks as administrators as much as scholars. David Kennedy (Treasury) is a Chicago banker so well regarded by both parties that Lyndon Johnson invited him to head the Treasury...
...cross section that Nixon sought. Earlier he had promised to put together "a Government drawn from the broadest possible base, an Administration made up of Republicans, Democrats and independents," one comprising "the very best men and women I can find in the country-from business, from government, from labor, from all the areas." Not by choice, he ended up with a group that is all white, all male, all Republican. As a rather obvious gesture of compensation, Nixon began the TV show by reappointing Walter Washington, a Negro Democrat, to a second term as commissioner, or mayor, of Washington...
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Raudenbush and Berg are also members of the Progressive Labor Party (PL). The relationship of PL to Harvard SDS was discussed at last night's meeting, amid expectations that the national convention to be held at the end of the month would be marked by a recurrence of a chronic power struggle between pro and anti-PL factions...
With a homogeneous Cabinet sharing Nixon's outlook, the second-level officials will become even more important, especially in State, Labor, and Treasury. The clearest early indication of Laird's attitude at the Pentagon will be what type of man he names to replace Alain Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, or whether the post is filled at all. The new Commissioner of Education can indicate what the Administration's attitude toward student protesters will be and its decision on the financial crisis of higher education Nixon's soft approach to civil rights enforcement might be hardened...