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...only book by a former White House employee to delve into Kennedy's sexual activities as President is Traphes Bryant's Dog Days at the White House. A temperamental, unreliable source, Bryant was an electrician and kennel keeper at the White House from Truman's days through Nixon's. The gossipy book is selling briskly with tales of backstairs intrigue that are impossible to verify...
Telltale Hairpins. According to Bryant, the housekeeping staff engaged in "a conspiracy of silence" to keep Jack's trysts a secret. Jack would sometimes lounge naked around the White House swimming pool when Jackie was away, and women would arrive, undress, and join him. He also tells of once taking the elevator past the family quarters in the course of his duties after the First Lady had left the mansion. "Just as the elevator door opened, a naked blonde office girl ran through the hall between the second-floor kitchen and the door leading to the West Hall. There...
President James Bryant Conant '14 wrote in 1943, "Today, we are concerned with a general education--a liberal education--not for the relatively few, but for the multitude," and thus invented the prevailing optimistic theory about what Harvard College does. You will supposedly come here and become well-rounded and interested in the world around you, and opening your eyes in this fashion is Harvard's institutional purpose. General Education is still around, of course. Your proctor will tell you about it; mostly it means you have to take a science course here even if you don't want...
Philosophically, however, the interest devoted to and effort expended on undergraduate education vary with the times and with the people who govern Harvard at any one point. Some--Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, or James Bryant Conant '14, for example--made it clear they felt undergraduate education was the administration's primary concern: with others--Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Derek C. Bok--the priorities are not so clear. While Harvard's internal policies change, its reputation in the outside world does not. Ask an East Coast student what Harvard is and he'll tell...
...Bryant was nominated by the Massachusetts Republican State Convention as a candidate for state treasurer in the 1974 election. Her name did not appear on the ballot because she failed to get enough signatures on her nominating petition...