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Last week alone, he and HEW were embattled on half a dozen fronts in their efforts to achieve that vision. The department...
...HEW's sixth secretary in its 14 years, Gardner has even more problems to cope with than any of the others, but he hardly seems disgruntled by the dimensions of the job. With characteristic wit, he once described his concerns as "a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." But as head of a department with a $12.3 billion budget (plus $25 billion more for social security), 150 programs and 100,000 employees, Gardner derives pride from the fact that he is quite literally the construction boss of Lyndon Johnson's visionary effort to build...
Medicare was one instance. Though HEW officials prepared for its introduction with what the President called "just about the largest single management effort since the Normandy invasion," there were inevitable bottlenecks...
...assistant secretary of HEW put it: "There has been a deceleration of our acceleration." That was just about as illuminating as most of what came out of the Johnson Administration last week...
...Office of Education is in the process of axing aid to another 185 segregated Southern school systems, eventually may end up denying funds to more than 400 districts serving a to tal of at least 1,000,000 children. At the same time, HEW is getting tough with segregated hospitals. It has scheduled hearings with an eye to ending all fed eral aid, including construction and research funds, to 17 or so Southern hospitals. Up to now, some 340 hospitals have been denied requests for new funds, notably Medicare payments, but none has been cut off from federal aid altogether...