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Patronage Push Replaces Democrats with GOP Appointees
The Nixon White House reports a sweeping replacement of Democrats with Republican appointees across 2,150 policy posts. Pardoned by critics, the administration notes most shifts are at below assistant secretary level, while a wave of forceouts and resignations reshapes agencies including HEW FDA and FNMA, with 84 of 93 U.S. attorneys now GOP appointments.
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Washington
Nixon
Harry Flemming
van Thfereiew
John F. Kennedy
White House
Ronald Ziegler
Robert M. Morgenthau
U.S
New York
Whitney North Seymour
Morgenthau
Herbert L. Ley Jr
Food and Drug Administration
Ley
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Robert H. Finch
Charles C. Edwards
American Medical Association
HEW
Raymond H. Lapin
Federal National Mortgage Association
Texas
Ralph Yarborough
John Tower
Yarborough
Senate
Richard B. Hardee
Tower
Morganthau
State Department
Sargent Shriver
Kennedy
France
Ellsworth Bunker
South Vietnam
Johnson
Pentagon
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Robert 0. Seamans Jr
NASA
Air Force
John L. McLucas
Barry J. Shillito
Navy
Laird
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Labor and Post Office
Flemming
Congress
Peter M. Flanagan