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...Thanks a lot, guys, for coming," said FBI Agent Robert Friedrick, supervisor of the bureau's Organized Crime Strike Force in Cleveland. On their own time, some 60 of his Ohio colleagues had gathered outside a federal courthouse in Washington to cheer him as Friedrick was arraigned on five counts of lying to the Justice Department and the FBI. The 13-year bureau veteran is accused of protecting Teamster President Jackie Presser from indictment in a payroll-padding scheme. "We were there to show him we still support him in this time of need," said Special Agent Daniel Gordon. Gordon...
...does, maybe it will take the sting out of Reagan's decision to snub the festivities. President Andrew Jackson paid a visit to Harvard's 200th birthday party in 1836, President Grover Cleveland stopped by for the 250th celebration in 1886, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 took part in the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. With Harvard men Donald T. Regan '40 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 among his inner circle of advisors and planning to attend the ceremony themselves, 350th bigwigs counted on Reagan's appearance at Friday morning's convocation on "The University in a Changing World...
However, the possibility that the President might receive an honorary degree at the 350th precipitated protest among some alumni and faculty members. Cleveland and Roosevelt both were offered honoraries and some faculty members, students and graduates said they felt it would be inappropriate to so honor a man whose policies they deemed harmful to higher education...
...second generation or so of Harvardians to let loose in honor of their alma mater. In November of 1886, then, the 250th anniversary of the College's founding was marked in a three-day celebration by 4000 celebrants, 2500 of whom jammed into Sanders Theater to see President Grover Cleveland and Charles William Eliot, then president of Harvard...
...Calkins doctorate follows Harvard's tradition of honoring prominent members of the Corporation after their retirement. Calkins, who retired from Harvard's top governing body last spring after 17 years of service, is a Cleveland lawyer at the firm of Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue and is best known for his work on tax law for the American Bar Association...