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Desai's accession to power was uneventful and low-keyed. On Thursday, he drove to the old Viceroy's residence-now known as Rashtrapati Bhavan -where he was sworn in by Acting President Jatti. The oaths of office and official secrecy were read in Hindi, and in keeping with Desai's wish for austerity, there were no garlands. The new Prime Minister told reporters that he wanted to avoid being "vindictive or vengeful" toward Mrs. Gandhi or her fallen comrades. He announced that she was free to live in her government residence "as long as she wished...
When she was sworn in as Commerce Secretary, Kreps tartly informed the President in front of TV cameras that there were plenty of talented women and "we have to do a better job of looking." Carolyn Shaw Bell, an economics professor at Wellesley College and campaign adviser to Carter, charges that the Administration's proclaimed program to find qualified women is nonexistent. Says she: "Carter has a staff recruiting people, and they are all men. What you find to recruit all depends upon who is doing the looking...
When Bailey won last November, the attorney general passed to the legislature the problem of whether he was eligible to serve. On Jan. 4 the other 99 legislators were sworn in while Bailey sat silently at his desk, his head bowed. The legislature appointed a committee to review the case, and that brought in the industrious Captain Pare. In 1961, Pare reported, Bailey was convicted in Medford, Mass., for possession of $2,112 worth of stolen goods and fined $100; two years later, again in Medford, police seized Bailey with $700 worth of hot merchandise. This time he was fined...
...John J. Walsh, who was the director of HEW's office of investigations when it was looking into the health care center, has sworn in an affadavit that Champion was present at a series of meetings between Walsh and Joseph A. Califano Jr., Secretary of HEW, when Califano demanded that Walsh channel information gleaned during the investigation through the office of HEW's general counsel...
...rest. I was too angry. If I had met any of my white friends, I would have lashed out at them from a vortex of primeval anger." And yet, Mitchell went on, he realized that the story "is as much a part of our legacy as Andrew Young being sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by Thurgood Marshall at the White House...