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A Short Biography of John W. Gardner

Author Name:

John W. Gardner

Born As:

John William Gardner

Other Names:

Born:

8 Oct 1912

Died:

16 Feb 2002




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Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson                          
Selected works:

Books, Writings and Speeches - 

Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? - 1961
To Turn the Tide - 1962
Self-Renewal - 1964
No Easy Victories - 1968
The Recovery of Confidence - 1970
In Common Cause - 1972
Morale - 1978
Quotations of Wit and Wisdom - 1980
On Leadership - 1990
Living, Leading, and the American Dream - 2003
Uncritical Lovers, Unloving Critics - 1968.                           
                          
President of the Carnegie Corporation 
Founder of  Common Cause and 
Founder of Independent Sector
Department undertook both the huge task of launching Medicare, which brought quality health care to senior citizens, and oversaw significant expansions of the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.                          
John W, Gardner resigned as head of HEW because he could not support the war in Vietnam.