John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner

John William Gardner (born October 8, 1912 in Los Angeles , California , † February 16, 2002 in Palo Alto , California) was the 6th Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson . He was also President of Carnegie Corporation and the founder of two influential US national agencies: Common Cause and Independent Sector . He has also written books on improved leadership in American society and other topics. Gardner was also the founder of two respected connections, The White House Fellows ship and The John Gardner Fellowship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley .

Gardner served as Minister of Health, Education and Welfare at the height of the domestic agenda of Johnson's Great Society program . During that time, the department took on the huge role of the emerging Medicare health insurance system , bringing quality health care to the elderly, and overseeing the substantial proliferation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which redefined the state's role in education and targeted support for poor students. Gardner was also instrumental in creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting . In 1970, Gardner created the Common Cause , the first public non-profit advocacy group in the United States . He also founded the Experience Corps .

In 1953 Gardner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; In 1964 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom .

Books, writing and speaking

• 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)
• Morals (1978)
• Quotations of Wit and Wisdom (1980)
• On Leadership (1990)
• Living, Leading, and the American Dream (2003)
• Uncritical Lovers, Unloving Critics (1968)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of Experience Corps ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1950-1999 ( [1] ). Retrieved September 23, 2015
3. ↑ Editor
4. ^ Edited with Francesca Gardner
5. ^ 100th Anniversary Cornell Commencement address given June 1, 1968, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Web links

• John W. Gardner at the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs (English)
• "John Gardner: Uncommon American" PBS documentary