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...confirmed, Richmond will be able to maintain his position on the mental health commission in addition to his assistant secretaryship, Rock added...
...THINK of myself as a career public servant," says Elliot Richardson, 49, the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer named last week to succeed Robert Finch as the boss of HEW. He knows the premises; he served as HEW Assistant Secretary in the Eisenhower Administration and turned down the HEW undcr-secretaryship under Nixon, explaining that "I had already been through all that." Instead, he has been the No. 2 man in the State Department, where he has displayed a talent for management that will be exercised to the full in picking up the pieces at diffuse and demoralized...
Despite his not having wanted the secretaryship, he is enjoying himself after seven months on the job. The work is hard and less pleasant than a congressional leader's, but the power is great. "I like to be picked...
...Federal Reserve Board and the head of the Council of Economic Advisers. Thus the Commerce Department's official dominion is slight-and it became even slighter when Johnson last fall created an autonomous Department of Transportation, which stripped Commerce of such major bureaus as the Under Secretaryship of Transportation, Public Roads and the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation...
...Shut Up!" His reward was the foreign secretaryship, which he had long coveted. Brown exchanged portfolios with Michael Stewart, who in his nearly two years as Foreign Secretary proved a tough and able diplomat, notably in supporting the U.S. position in Viet Nam against internal Labor Party criticism. Brown has not been on the job long enough to produce any big successes, but he is steadily gaining influence in the Wilson Cabinet. Long the most enthusiastic Laborite supporter of Britain's joining Europe, Brown persuaded an initially reluctant Wilson that it was time to knock on the Common Market...