Word: allison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want Reagan at Commencement. We wanted to dispel any such impression." Calling the whole matter "an embarrassment," Smith said he was concerned that the story had done "significant damage" to relations with the Reagan White House, possibly hurting the ability to place graduate students in administrative positions. Allison, looking back on it, was more sanguine; he said he didn't think the story had had any effect on relations with the White House, adding, "They have a lot more business to do than worry about this, and they appreciate that newspapers always try to get an angle on a story...
...after the story appeared, April 15, Forman, Schmidt and Allison met in Allison's Kennedy School office to assess the situation and decide what to do next. It was a meeting, Schmidt recalls, to "get our signals straight" and clarify that if Reagan came it would be to the main Commencement ceremonies...
...please make that official," and he did. And three days later came the reply, a "very polite and courteous"--but definite--no. "To this day I am still uncertain whether President Reagan himself was aware of the situation or had any interest in coming to Harvard at this time," Allison says...
...been critics who said that the school was growing too much and too fast. This year, some think their suspicions have been confirmed. Long before President Bok last year ordered the Masters of Public Policy (MPP) program to absorb the GSD City and Regional Planning (CRP) program, Graham T Allison Jr. '62, dean of the K-School, argued that an expanded home was necessary. Now it's urgent...
...Allison himself admits that he is concerned about whether the new building can be started in time. According to original plans, K-School coffers should be stuffed by July 1 with $6.25 million earmarked for construction. Ground should be broken shortly afterwards and professors could start moving...