Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topflight men who work for him. "There are a lot of top executives who can't tolerate first-class men around them," he once wrote. "They separate the men from the boys, and hire the boys." By a stroke of luck, Gardner had 14 top-level positions in HEW to fill when he took over. Lyndon Johnson gave him a free hand in filling them ("Forget about any political considerations"), and Gardner picked men for the jobs...
...must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession." What rankles him is the fact that so few educators seem to share his concern. Only a fraction of 1% of all the billions spent on education goes to research. In many American schools, says a former HEW education official, the prevailing attitudes are "inflexibility, defensiveness and insularity," making them "fortresses against the community" rather than fertile forces within it. Adding to the indictment, Gardner charges that "the schools have been all too willing to unload their behavior and scholastic problems on the community in the form...
With the aid of a former Pentagon Whiz Kid, Assistant Secretary William Gorham, 35, Gardner grafted McNamara-style systems-analysis techniques onto HEW's programs to determine which were paying off best. Gorham is engaged in providing the information that Gardner will need for decisions such as whether money is better spent on vocational education, or job retraining, or increased aid to poor schoolchildren. One startling fact uncovered by Gorham: an advertising campaign to persuade automobile drivers to use seat belts saved one life for every $88 spent; an extensive educational effort to train drivers saved one for every...
...Ph.D. in psychology from Berkeley, Gardner spent four years teaching the subject at women's colleges in the East, found the life too confining and moved to Washington. He worked for the Federal Communications Commission's Foreign Intelligence Broadcast Service-ironically, in the same building that is HEW's headquarters today. It was a radical change, but it was part of Gardner's ripening philosophy of self-renewal by means of change...
...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...