Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep up with the work. All eyes turn to Washington for solutions to all problems. It's an entirely different world." Mo Udall figures that he cast three times as many votes (645) in the House last year as he did five years ago. Says he: "A common complaint is that it isn't fun here any more. There used to be time for conviviality and companionship. Not any more. The job just grinds you down...
Perhaps a little reluctance would have helped. Humphrey was so hungry for the job that he bore the L.B.J. brand with hardly more complaint than the cattle on the ranch. In his autobiography, The Education of a Public Man, Humphrey described how Johnson invited him to the ranch and in the course of the visit ordered him to shoot a deer. The Vice President-elect, who abhorred hunting, did as he was told with obvious distaste. So Johnson told him to bag another deer. Once again, Humphrey obeyed his Commander in Chief. It was to be that kind of relationship...
...Another complaint students raise is that the admissions office saddles them with various rules and procedural guidelines amounting to little more than "bureaucratic red tape." One such guideline requires the students to send out letters in the fall to all the minority students on the Search Lists, before they may begin any other form of recruiting. In light of the letter "official Harvard" sends these students, the minority recruiters say their own letter is a duplication of efforts...
...complaint about bureaucratic red tape is not in itself terribly important, but the rules and guidelines they criticize may be indicative of a generally negative attitude among regular admissions officers toward the program. According to Enrique Moreno '78, one of the students who has worked longest in the program, the recruiters "are always at square one with the admissions staff. Harvard has no long-range plans for us. Each year I've been here we've gone knocking on Jewett's door, asking for funds. Each year, we've been getting them, but we are constantly forced to legitimate ourselves...
...always wanted to see the Pyramids.' " Did it really happen? Better ask the Sphinx, because nobody else is talking. Does it really matter? Hamilton's boss doesn't seem to think so. When Quinn's story appeared, Jimmy Carter's only complaint was that it took up far more space than the paper's year-end review of his Administration's record...