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...that Americans have overmoralized public office. They tend to equate public greatness with private goodness, forgetting that a revered President like Abraham Lincoln suffered assorted psychosomatic ailments, that he was absentminded, and told jokes that made him seem callous. If private rectitude were tantamount to public usefulness, then Calvin Coolidge would be esteemed the greatest President...
Murdered Mistresses. A dull day! The very thought would make Hecht and MacArthur spin in their rolltop desks. Their "supermen with soiled collars" were a callous, cynical lot, born of an era when circulation wars raged and when a condemned man was not simply hanged but, as one daily bannered, JERKED TO JESUS. Armed with phony search warrants, police badges and wiretapping devices, reporters got the story one way or the other-usually the other. They climbed through windows to steal the diaries of murdered mistresses, kidnaped suspects to get exclusive interviews, and planted clues to sustain a sordid rape...
...Reasons for Fighting This is a war with a difference. We do not take the Ibos as our enemies; they are our brothers. As far as I am concerned, I'm fighting a war to keep the country one and united. I therefore cannot afford to be callous in the way I prosecute this war. I have got to think of the problems of reconstruction, reconciliation and winning the heart, if we are to have a happy country in the end. It would be quite an easy thing to say, "All right, we will call them enemies...
Harvard University is now and always will be as much the property of its student body as of the Corporation. We must no longer tolerate from the Corporation such callous and irresponsible conduct, conduct inimical to the interests of every segment of the University community, as well as the broader external community. More than this, we cannot allow any recurrences of this conduct. Even if the Corporation were to make a complete about face on its policies at this very moment, there would be no guarantee that these policies would not be resumed again tomorrow. Experience has shown that...
...issues are satisfactorlly resolved. This action is necessary because the present mechanisms of policy-making at Harvard are totally inadequate. The decision-making power of the Corporation is completely unresponsive to student opposition to its decisions. Furthermore, the recent actions of the Corporation and the Administration display a callous disregard for the safety and lives of this student body...