“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” — Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 1, 1962
John Gardner, HEW Secretary, Common Cause Founder, Dies
By Richard Pearson
Washington Post, February 18, 2002; Page B06
Mentor to the World
By Fred Wertheimer
Washington Post, February 19, 2002; Page A15
John W. Gardner, 89, Founder of Common Cause and Adviser to Presidents, Dies
By Robert D. McFadden
The New York Times
John Gardner, founder of Common Cause, engineer of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" program, dead at 89
Stanford Report, February 17, 2002
PBS Special: John Gardner: Uncommon American