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National Preoccupation. Within his own department, Gardner is experimenting with a spate of solutions to what he calls the "crises of organization" that afflict practically every domestic U.S. program. "Most organizations have a structure that was designed to solve problems that no longer exist," says Gardner, and he has been tinkering with HEW's machinery ever since he arrived...
...been greatly assisted by the topflight men who work for him. "There are a lot of top executives who can't tolerate first-class men around them," he once wrote. "They separate the men from the boys, and hire the boys." By a stroke of luck, Gardner had 14 top-level positions in HEW to fill when he took over. Lyndon Johnson gave him a free hand in filling them ("Forget about any political considerations"), and Gardner picked men for the jobs...
...Commissioner of Education, he named former Scarsdale Schools Superintendent Harold Howe II, 48, a skillful administrator whose choice reflects Gardner's lifelong crusade for better education. The ultimate purpose of education can move this ascetic, unflappable man to evangelistic fervor. "The idea of individual fulfillment within a framework of moral purpose," he says, "must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession." What rankles him is the fact that so few educators seem to share his concern. Only a fraction of 1% of all the billions spent on education goes to research. In many American schools...
...head the Food and Drug Administration, Gardner named Dr. James L. Goddard, 43, the first physician to serve as commissioner in 45 years, and, if a good many shaken pharmaceutical executives have their fondest wish, perhaps the last. As Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs he named Philip Lee, who found a way to train 225,000 nurses a year instead of the previous 125,000 by pooling the resources of half a dozen separate agencies-without any extra cost...
With the aid of a former Pentagon Whiz Kid, Assistant Secretary William Gorham, 35, Gardner grafted McNamara-style systems-analysis techniques onto HEW's programs to determine which were paying off best. Gorham is engaged in providing the information that Gardner will need for decisions such as whether money is better spent on vocational education, or job retraining, or increased aid to poor schoolchildren. One startling fact uncovered by Gorham: an advertising campaign to persuade automobile drivers to use seat belts saved one life for every $88 spent; an extensive educational effort to train drivers saved one for every...