Dole's government resume is extensive and includes professional stints at the Nixon White House as a deputy assistant for consumer affairs, the Federal Trade Commission, and the now-defunct Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

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Sotomayor lodged a grievance with what was then the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, accusing Princeton of an "institutional pattern of discrimination" in admissions and in hiring "Puerto Rican and Chicano" faculty.

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Her Washington career started the following year, at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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