Word: gardners
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Plucked Arm. Last year Gardner became chairman of Johnson's special task force on education which, the President reported last week, "helped to plant the seed bed of the education harvest that has been produced by the 89th Congress." Recommendations by the task force formed the basis for key sections of Johnson's $1.3 billion federal-aid-to-education law passed this year. A month ago, an aide strongly recommended Gardner to Johnson as a replacement for Celebrezze-and Gardner started undergoing the well-known Lyndon look-over...
...weeks ago Gardner chaired a White House Conference on Education, further impressed the President by advising co-participants not to "nibble timidly around the edges" of the big issues, but to "start taking some barracuda-like bites." At a ceremony after the conference, Johnson plucked Gardner's arm, said, "I want to see you right after the reception." In his office Johnson broached the idea of HEW to Gardner, who, two days later, accepted -even though his $35,000 Government salary reportedly will be half of what he earned at Carnegie...
Word to the Board. Explains Gardner: "It is exceedingly difficult to say no when the President asks something of you of that magnitude." But by the President's own admission, the persuasion was not confined to his quarry. At his news conference last week, Johnson remarked that "I asked his board to relieve him of his duties and release him to the Government." The Carnegie Corporation denied that its board had been personally contacted by the President; the White House later explained that Johnson had meant that he relayed the request to the board through Gardner himself...
...Gardner is married and the father of two grown daughters; his wife is a Guatemalan whom he met through friends at Stanford...
...called for splitting off HEW's education office into a separate Cabinet-level Department of Education. Adding to the pressure, more burdens-and billions-are being piled on HEW as a result of Great Society programs, not the least of which is the $6.5 billion medicare scheme. Says Gardner: "I don't think even informed Americans have stopped to think what their representatives have made of this department. It has been handed an absolutely staggering set of assignments...