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...said the laws will be "good for sons of famous men, athletes, T.V. announcers and astronauts" who already have name-recognition. "That seems to be a lot less wise from a public-policy point of view than letting Ruth Farkas buy an ambassadorship to Luxembourg," he said...
Your special issue of Aug. 19 says that I, "like so many others in the Administration, drifted away (Moynihan went off to an ambassadorship in New Delhi after his pet programs were gutted ...)." This makes it sound as if I took this post as a retirement job, or something such. It is not at all the case, and the statement is less than complimentary to the government to which I am accredited...
...come to work for him in December 1968, he volunteered at a press conference that I would be able to stay for two years. More than once, perhaps, I considered leaving sooner, but I stayed until December 1970, exactly as originally agreed. I had been offered the United Nations ambassadorship, but had declined. In the two years that followed I wrote two books, organized a course at Harvard, served on the U.S. delegation to the U.N. and stayed out of politics. Then the President called to ask me to go to India. As I had publicly disagreed with...
Totally frustrated, Whitlam tried to upset the balance in the Senate by persuading a longtime foe, Senator Vincent Gair, to accept the ambassadorship to Ireland. What Whitlam saw as a masterly stroke, his opponents, together with most of the Australian press, viewed as a cynical ploy. Whatever it was, the plan backfired. Instead of Gair's seat going to a Whitlam supporter as the Prime Minister expected, the premier of Queensland State used a loophole in the law to put in another conservative. Finally, when the opposition in the Senate, spoiling for a fight, began to carry...
Eric "Endzone" Crone '73, legendary Harvard quarterback won an ambassadorship Tuesday from the recently-formed World Football League (WFL), ending his ten-month quest to break into the pro ranks...