Nation: Secretary for Domestic Problems

A> Richard Nixon intimates put it:

"When there's trouble, the Boss wants Bob." Nixon all but announced last week that he had chosen his old friend Robert Hutchison Finch for Sec- retary of Health, Education and Welfare. In a jocular speech, Finch, 43, remarked, "I've worked with the President-elect a long time and I can tell you there hasn't been much health in it, there hasn't been much welfare in it, but it's been a damn good education." In the process, he has matured as a consummate politician who is likely to be the next President's No. 1 domestic problem solver and...

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