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...speechwriter Michael Gerson was told to begin work on an address to be delivered the following week. Gerson went through 14 drafts, with editing provided by Card, presidential counselor Karen Hughes and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. In an Oval Office meeting Tuesday, the advisers decided Bush should also confront the pre-9/11 intelligence failures and provide a progress report on the war against al-Qaeda. "We recognized the President had to address what's on the nation's mind," Hughes says. Cabinet members were not told of the plan for the new department until Wednesday, 24 hours before...
With this, Harvard has started looking to the unions to deal with the issues it was forced to confront with...
...We’re taught at Harvard how to be analytical and logical,” she said. “But if we’re going to confront the problems of the world—like terrorism—we need to realize it’s not logical. We forget about the emotional...
...ever know what impact, if any, the FBI's following up of these requests might have had," Rowley writes. In a way, she's right--for every American, what might have been will be maddeningly, eternally unknowable. But Rowley has at least forced the FBI and the Administration to confront their failures directly and publicly, rather than sweep them under a self-stitched rug of wartime immunity. The congressional investigations may yet get bogged down in finger pointing and political grandstanding, but for now they represent the main opportunity to learn the lessons that could help guard against the next...
That year the government announced an extension bill to provide more Korean veterans—not just those who had suffered wounds in combat—with a free education. And having just recently recovered from one global war, Harvard once again prepared to confront darkening world events...