Education Leader, Citizens' Advocate, And Professor John W. Gardner Dies
John W. Gardner, one of the architects of the educational and other social programs enacted as part of the Great Society initiatives of the 1960s, died Feb. 16 at the age of 89. He had prostate cancer.
Mr. Gardner was President Lyndon B. Johnson's secretary of health, education, and welfare from 1965 until 1968. He assisted the Johnson administration in winning congressional approval of legislation that still constitutes the framework for the federal role in aiding K-12 schools and helping...
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