The Administration: A Sense of What Should Be

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political system has undergone a revolution since 1933, and another major departure appears in process now." That departure involves a wholly new system of relationships and approaches to Government at all levels of American society. As Gardner puts it, the new modes of organizing U.S. life have "profound implications for the way we organize our society and govern ourselves in the years ahead." Says he: "We have made the biggest step—facing our problems and the nature of the solutions. We have a sense of what can and should be."

Groping Attempts. Gardner believes that the old set of arrangements, from unmanageable city governments to uncoordinated federal programs, is dying. "Meanwhile, one can see at all levels the groping attempts to create a new system—a system that will be less wasteful of resources, that will profit by the advantages of modern large-scale organization, and that will give a wider range of Americans easy access to the benefits of our society." Optimist that he is, Gardner hardly imagines that Utopia will spring forth full-blown once such a machinery is created. He believes, rather, that a new series of "great opportunities" for Americans will always come along—brilliantly disguised, of course, as insoluble problems.