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...lectures will be given live on April 7, 8, and 9 in Austin Hall at the Law School, rather than being pre-taped for television presentation as were last year's talks by John W. Gardner...
...Catholics, Jews. "If you find a black woman," says Bell, "you've hit a home run." Unlike Communist front groups, however, commissions consider extremism in any form a vice. Better that the commissioner have no clear party label and no pronounced political views. Moderate liberals like John W. Gardner are frequently sought for service on commissions, even if room is occasionally found for a moderate eccentric like Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer...
Sometimes he gets so vicious that even the gamely liberal management of the Post has to wince. "They're very admirable about it," Von Hoffman says. "They just grit their teeth and look a little doe-eyed when I take on their friends, like John Gardner." Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition and something of a saint to the liberal press, became a Hoffman target after he wrote an article criticizing young demonstrators. Von Hoffman called the Gardner article a "lawnorder pep talk...
...eighth decade of the 20th century is drawing near; yet many of the men who hold the levers of congressional power in Washington were born before the century began. In a recent address to the National Press Club, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner noted that since 1958, by act of Congress, the chief judges of federal district and circuit courts have been required to give up all administrative duties at age 70. Gardner suggested that Congress itself ought to follow suit...
...Speaker of the House is 78," Gardner said. "Thirteen Senate and House committee chairmen are over 70, six of them over 75, two over 80. They are full of years and honors. They can serve best by stepping aside. That would be patriotism at its highest...