The Nation: Elephant Drill

F. David Mathews, 41, returning to the University of Alabama as president after serving for 17 months as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare:

I came here with some skepticism, if not antagonism. The Government was so cumbersome, so hard to get to. I was outraged by its processes. There were assumptions and naiveté in social policy, especially in the separation of the people the Government dealt with—the blind, the old, the poor, all separated out. Of course that is not the way people live, or should live.

All I've tried to do is deal with how the public can be involved...

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