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Home by 7 or 8, Gardner perches on a kitchen chair, sipping a Scotch or a Dubonnet and chatting with his wife as she prepares dinner. Later, he goes back to work in a book-lined study whose collection includes translations...
...about that time Gardner told Brother Louis, a motel resort owner in Carmel Valley, Calif., that he was "tapering off." But Johnson, who admired his work on the education bill, had other ideas, asked him to join the Cabinet. There was an immense gulf between running Carnegie's 35-member staff and HEW's army of 100,000, but, as Gardner puts it, "it is exceedingly difficult to say no when the President asks something of you of that magnitude." Besides, it was time for a change...
Into the Sun. A man who cherishes his privacy, Gardner once said: "I have strong feelings about the peace and quiet of my back garden and the excitement of the main highway. I love them both, and I hope I don't have to give up either." The back garden has suffered somewhat in the past 18 months, but he still manages to take long walks. He used to play golf, but with typical thoroughness began charting his game on a graph, saw no signs of improvement, and stashed his left-handed clubs...
Weekday mornings at 7:55 a grey Cadillac sedan calls for Gardner at his Chevy Chase, Md., home, and he usually jots down his day's agenda on a lined yellow pad during the 35-minute drive to his office. On Gardner's desk is a copy of an aphorism written in German by an unknown author: "Das Beste is gut genug"-the best is good enough. Behind the desk is a framed photo of the President with the inscription, "Now, John, I mean it. We must cut down on spending...
...Mountain. In his 18 months in office, Gardner has taken hold of HEW with markedly greater determination and sureness than any of his five predecessors. The effect is being felt not only around the capital, but out in the regions as well. Jim Bond, a multimillionaire Dallas businessman who, atypically, is HEW's regional director for a five-state Southwest area (and who annually donates more to charity than he makes at his $22,500-a-year job), concedes that in the past, "I haven't always been as enthusiastic as I should have. But John Gardner...