Word: gardners
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Someone will have to, or the Great Society dream may soon go aglimmering. "In almost every domestic program, we are encountering crises of organization," Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner told the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations last month. "Coordination among federal agencies leaves much to be desired. Communication among the various levels of government-federal, state and local-is casual and ineffective...
...stumbling block is the general disrepair of many state and local governments. Unless they shape up-and soon-warned John Gardner, they will turn into "mere branch offices of one all-dominating national government." Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who, as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, has probed deeply into the problem, agrees. "We want to save local autonomy from what could be its own destruction," he told Indiana's legislature last week. "If state and local governments do not take effective steps to meet the urban crisis, for example, someone will have...
...Boggs hustled back to Washington after a conference at the L.B.J. ranch with word that the President might request a tax increase of as much as $15 billion. Lyndon Johnson dismissed the report, sniffing that "guesses will be made from time to time-that is a democratic privilege." Next, Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, flew down to Austin with a report as bright as the Texas sun: 1967, he said, should bring a "more balanced, moderate kind of growth," with fewer slowdowns or inflationary pressures. Did this mean that there would not be a tax increase...
Publisher Gardner Cowles...
...week after the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. charged that federal anti-poverty programs "coerce" the poor into practicing contraception, a number of influential Protestant leaders went on record to assert that they were all for birth control. In a letter to President Johnson, Welfare Secretary John Gardner, and Sargent Shriver of the OEO, the secretary of the United Presbyterians' General Council, Dr. Theophilus Taylor, stated his denomination's support for federal birth control programs, and labeled the bishops' charge as "completely unfounded...