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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...
...Warned the board of education in Chicago, where only 13% of the city's 500,000 pupils attend integrated schools, that it too may face a cutoff in federal funds. At the same time, HEW teams were studying patterns of segregation in 45 other cities, a signal that Gardner may be preparing to take action in the hypersensitive area of defacto segregation...
...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...