Word: gardners
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Harrowing, we have been told by some. It may not be all that bad. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner was interviewed at length for this week's cover story by Reporter Michael McManus, both in his office and at home, and seems to have weathered the ordeal well. "It's been driving energy all the way," he said gamely, "and that's what I like...
John William Gardner, 54, the so-and-so once removed from Ribicoff (former Cleveland Mayor Anthony Celebrezze came in between), takes wry pleasure in recalling the bloodcurdling things he heard about his sprawling domain when he first took over in August 1965. Then he adds: "I think that people just don't say that any more...
...sixth secretary in its 14 years, Gardner has even more problems to cope with than any of the others, but he hardly seems disgruntled by the dimensions of the job. With characteristic wit, he once described his concerns as "a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." But as head of a department with a $12.3 billion budget (plus $25 billion more for social security), 150 programs and 100,000 employees, Gardner derives pride from the fact that he is quite literally the construction boss of Lyndon Johnson's visionary effort to build a Great Society...
...social and economic reforms to which the Johnson Administration has committed itself in the past three years. The 89th Congress put no fewer than 136 major domestic bills on the books, and nearly everybody from federal administrators to municipal bookkeepers has been overwhelmed as a result. "Our aspirations," says Gardner, "have outrun our organizational abilities...
...offer seemed irresistible-to everyone except Yardley's oligarchical Gardner family, which bought out the Yardley's in 1883, carefully kept a ruling majority of the voting stock when the company went public in 1920. Least flattered by the BAT bid: Yardley Chairman T. Lyddon Gardner, 62, second generation of the family to head the firm and patriarch of a third generation coming along the company's ranks. Last week, after huddling with Yardley's bankers, N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Gardner urged stockholders to ignore BAT's tender offer. "We are going into battle...