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This isn't the presidential search of today in which a select committee will pick Neil L. Rudenstine's successor. It is instead the search of 1953--James B. Conant '13 was preparing to step down and Nathan M. Pusey was standing in the wings...
...Conant's vocal views on the draft, the atomic bomb and intervention in World War II made his name prevalent in American politics...
Some years earlier Joseph had found an apartment in the same building for Pusey's Harvard predecessor, James B. Conant '14. Indeed, Pusey and Conant became great friends while living in the building from 1971 to 1977--a process facilitated, according to Pusey, by their shared fondness for bourbon...
When Pusey suceeded Conant as Harvard President in 1953, he did not know he would be the last President to live in Loeb House, in what is now the headquarters of the Harvard Corporation...
...James B. Conant '14, who came out of the ranks of Harvard's chemistry department to head the university, was the last professor without central administrative experience to head Harvard...