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Gardner from White House Fellows release

John William Gardner (October 8, 1912 – February 16, 2002) was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under President Lyndon Johnson. He was a strong advocate for citizen participation and founded Common Cause; he became known as "the father of campaign finance reform".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Education and military serviceEdit

A native of California, Gardner attended Stanford University. As an undergrad he set several swimming records and won a number of Pacific Coast championships, and graduated "with great distinction." After earning a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1938, Dr. Gardner taught at Connecticut College and at Mount Holyoke.

During the early days of World War II he was chief of the Latin American Section, Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service. He subsequently entered the United States Marine Corps and was assigned to the O.S.S., serving in Italy and Austria.

Early careerEdit

Gardner joined the staff of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1946, and in 1955 he became president of that group, and concurrently, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He also served as an advisor to the U.S. delegation to the United Nations and as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force, which awarded him the Exceptional Service Award in 1956.

Gardner was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and of the Educational Testing Service and a director of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He served as chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Panel on Education, and was chief draftsman of that group's widely circulated report, The Pursuit of Excellence.

Gardner authored books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. He was also the founder of two prestigious fellowship programs, The White House Fellows and The John Gardner Fellowship at Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. In 1966 Gardner was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.<ref name="PublicWelfare">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)Edit

Gardner's term as Secretary of HEW was at the height of Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda. During this tenure, the 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 that redefined the federal role in education and targeted funding to poor students. Gardner resigned as head of HEW because he could not support the war in Vietnam.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Gardner was featured on the cover and in an article of the January 20, 1967 Time magazine, and later that year also presided over the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Later lifeEdit

Gardner later served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees from 1968 to 1982. On August 18, 1970, Gardner founded Common Cause,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and also founded the Experience Corps in the same year.<ref>History of Experience Corps Template:Webarchive</ref>

In 1973, he received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1980–1983 he co-founded Independent Sector, which lobbies and does public relations work on behalf of tax-exempt organizations in order to retain the charitable deduction.

In September 2000, Gardner lent his name and support to the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> at Stanford University, a center that partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research, and effect change to improve the lives of youth.

Gardner died of cancer in San Francisco on February 16, 2002. He was buried in San Francisco National Cemetery.

Publications and speechesEdit

Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? (1961)
To Turn the Tide (1962)
Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society (1964)
No Easy Victories (1968)
Uncritical Lovers, Unloving Critics (1968)<ref>Commencement address delivered June 1, 1968, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Published as Template:Cite journal</ref>
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)
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The John Gardner Fellowship ProgramEdit

The John Gardner Fellowship Program<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was established in 1985 by Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley to honor Gardner.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The fellowship encourages highly motivated graduating seniors to pursue careers in public and community service.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Three fellows from each university are chosen annually and provided with placement assistance and a senior mentor in their placement organization. Past placements have included the White House, the United States Department of State, and various nonprofit organizations.

Initial funding for the fellowship was provided by the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Educational Foundation of America, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Millennium Fund, and Michael Walsh. Over time, additional supporters have contributed to the program.

The John Gardner Fellowship Association is an association of John Gardner Fellowship alumni from both Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, whose mission is to carry on Gardner's legacy of public service and ensure that the Fellowship programs at both schools have adequate resources for success.

Notable former fellows include Gary Rosen, editor of The Wall Street Journal's Weekend Review (1988–1989), Rachel Maddow (1994–1995), and Heather Podesta (1993–1994).

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External linksEdit

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"John W. Gardner: Statesman, Social Reformer, Public Advocate," exhibit. Spotlight at Stanford, Stanford Libraries, 2021.
"John Gardner: Uncommon American" PBS documentary
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"John W. Gardner: The Man Behind Our Mission" Template:Webarchive
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