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...suit, Dwight N. Cooper '95 charges that he was a victim of reverse discrimination, wrongful discharge and denial of equal protection, intentional defamation of character, libel and slander, invasion of privacy, breach of fiduciary duty and professional negligence, conspiracy to deprive right to educational liberty and free speech, intentional infliction of pain and suffering and injunctive relief, according to court documents...
...generated more than $1.3 billion in nonfederal aid for American libraries, museums, universities and colleges. Its net of activities reaches very wide. It funds the study and publication of essential archives, like the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain and Dwight Eisenhower. (Twenty-eight volumes of Washington's papers alone have appeared so far.) It has given more than $1 million to a projected 21-volume documentary history of the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It sponsored Ken Burns' TV series on the Civil War, as well...
...WANT TO PREJUDGE POWELL AS a presidential candidate, but we should learn from our past experience. The U.S. suffered under Ulysses S. Grant, and stood still for eight years under Dwight Eisenhower. Military duty in command positions is not the appropriate training for political office. Politics is the art of building consensus among diverse special interests rather than the art of commanding others. The presidency should be the culmination of a career in civilian government service rather than a prize for a beloved military hero. THEODORE M. UTCHEN Wheaton, Illinois...
...time when a young man of energy bumped into opportunity around every corner. His pal Harold E. Stassen, another bumptious Minnesota lawyer, became one of the hottest young Governors in the nation, and Burger was floor manager for Stassen's unsuccessful run for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. Dwight D. Eisenhower's men noticed Burger and brought him to Washington after Ike's election in 1952. Burger was surprised and somewhat mystified when Richard Nixon plucked him off the appeals court to be Chief Justice. "I hardly knew Nixon," Burger marveled at the time. "I had not seen...
...Dwight Nikola Cooper...