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...Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce Secretary John Connor and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien is considered a question mark. In the second and third tiers of the federal bureaucracy and among Democratic officeholders around the U.S., the preference for Bobby is even more pronounced...
...Council of Economic Advisers earlier this year unanimously favored some form of tax increase to deflate demand and take some of the pressure off the money market, but the President overruled it. Feeling that he was not equipped to deal with the political aspects of the problem, Chairman Gardner Ackley said nothing in public to betray his real feelings...
...prices and wage boosts within "reasonable bounds," lest the Government feel forced "to take other measures." What these measures might be, Johnson did not say, though higher taxes (after the November elections) are the most obvious possibility. The President also ordered Health, Education and Welfare Department Secretary John W. Gardner to investigate spiraling medical costs, which have jumped 3.4% in just six months. The cost of hospital care has been going up swiftly, and now stands at 164% of its 1957-59 level...
Mint Green. "Brownie," as he had been called since childhood, had plenty of vim and vigor and decided to give the place a shaking-up. He also clasped to his bosom an ex-pressagent named Hy Gardner. Gardner got a gossip column and a big voice in the upper echelons. Soon Brownie brought in a dismally square Tangle Towns puzzle contest, a mint-green third section, a weekly pocket TV magazine (editor: Gardner), and an early-bird edition that came out at 8 p.m. The puzzles boosted circulation, but the green section did nothing, the TV guide lost money...
...from Ideal." The official obituary to the guidepost policy was written at week's end by Gardner Ackley, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. In a speech prepared for summer commencement exercises at the University of Michigan, Ackley said: "The policy we have relied on-our wage and price guideposts-is surely far from ideal, and has recently suffered some stunning defeats. But what is more disappointing than the specific defeats is the absence of much apparent recognition on the side of either-labor or management that this problem must be solved...