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...doctrine of executive privilege has historically been a bitter issue. Many Presidents-including George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower-have argued that a Chief Executive must accord his advisers the full freedom to offer their candid counsel without being forced to tell Congress or the nation's newspapers what it was. Yet the doctrine has sometimes been invoked to conceal bumbling, or political pressures, to suppress valid arguments against the decisions a President finally makes, or to hide outright corruption within an Administration...
...Richmond-the Governor's mansion is excluded from busing plans because it is on state rather than city land-Holton has put his elder daughter, Tayloe, 15, into a high school that is 88% black; Anne, 13, and Woody, 12, attend a middle school 86% black, and Dwight, 5, a school that is 50% black. All seem to have thrived...
...great man is one sentence," declared Clare Boothe Luce in a speech to the American Gas Association convention in Boston. "History has no time for more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence that has an active verb." Dwight Eisenhower's sentence: "He led the victorious armies of the alliance in the greatest war in history." John F. Kennedy's: "He challenged the might of the Soviet Union in the Western Hemisphere and won-short of war." Richard Nixon, she thinks, "may be in the process of writing his one sentence now. It will...
Charles U. Daly, vice president for Government and Community Affairs, will chair a five-member faculty committee to evaluate the Nieman Fellowship Program in light of disagreements between the journalism Fellows and Dwight Sargent, curator of the Nieman fellowships...
Cobb also said Sargent "shepherded funds inequitably." "Somehow the Dwight Sargent-sponsored events always seemed to occur in the top of the Holyoke Center or at an expensive club. If the Fellows brought up a speaker we had to settle for beer and cheese at the Faculty Club. And we often had to foot the hotel and airline bills for our guests from our own pockets," Cobb said...