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...February 4, Walsh was summoned to Califano's office, and found Califano, Champion, and HEW's General Counseldesignate Thomas Barrett in the office. Walsh says Califano asked him if he had begun the Souza investigation, and then told him that he should henceforth clear all investigations with the General Counsel's office. Califano also asked Walsh to wait until after Barrett had drawn up a plant for the investigation...
...March 8, the health subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee held its first set of hearings on Hale Champion's nomination as Undersecretary. Most of the questions were routine. But then Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (D-Ga.), chairman of the health subcommittee, asked Champion about the Souza case and Walsh's resignation. Champion replied that Walsh had simply been instructed to keep the General Counsel's Office informed of his activities, not to actually "clear his work" with the counsel. Champion also said that until the HEW Inspector General was installed in the then empty post--Congress had only created...
...committee scheduled another hearing on Champion's nomination for March 17 to get to the bottom of the Souza scandal. Champion was the target, of course, because he alone of the participants in the February 4 meeting was still unconfirmed. But there was a sudden death in Talmadge's family, so the hearing was rescheduled for March...
...room on Capitol Hill to watch the Senate Judiciary Committee grill L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's nominee for FBI director, about his role in the Watergate investigation. Like Champion, Gray was the only official available for questioning, and his nomination was eventually withdrawn. Champion was clearly luckier, for the Souza Medicare fraud scandal has apparently blown over. So he can now turn his attention to simpler problems--like welfare reform...
...offices on Independence Avenue. On the day of Champion's confirmation hearing, the world learned that Califano hired a private chef for himself and Champion, using a 402-word job description that never mentioned words "chef" or "cook." After answering about ten minutes' worth of reporters' questions about Souza, Walsh, and his own nomination, the ice finally broke...