Editing Jack Eckerd (section)

==Public service==
In 1975 Eckerd was appointed administrator of the [[General Services Administration]] by [[U.S. President]] [[Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]]<ref name=LATimes>{{cite news |title=Jack Eckerd, 91; built drugstore chain, was philanthropist, politician |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=22 May 2004 |access-date=18 April 2022 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-22-me-passings22.1-story.html}}</ref> During his confirmation hearing, Eckerd said that President Ford instructed him (Eckerd) to "...run this agency as clean as a hound's tooth."<ref name=nomination>{{cite book |title=Nomination of Jack M. Eckerd: hearings before the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, on nomination of Jack M. Eckerd, to be Administrator of the General Services Administration, October 31, and November 13, 1975. |author=United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. |year=1976 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejLQAAAAMAAJ&dq=Nomination+of+Jack+M.+Eckerd+%3A+hearings+before+the+Committee+on+Government+Operations%2C+United+States+Senate%2C+Ninety-fourth+Congress%2C+first+session%2C+on&pg=PP1 |access-date=18 April 2022 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |location=Washington, DC}}</ref>{{clarify|date=May 2024}} Ford also named Eckerd to serve on the U.S.O. Board of Governors.  President [[Ronald Reagan]] later named him to the Grace Commission's private sector panel on government cost control. In 1981 Governor [[Bob Graham]] named Eckerd chairman of Florida's Prison Rehabilitative Industries & Diversified Enterprises, Inc. (PRIDE), a unique private sector board that operates all Florida Prison industries.