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...vice president of University of Richmond, John Roush saw first-hand the impact that hosting a national debate -as Richmond did in 1992--could have on a school. When he became president of Centre College, Roush decided that Centre should try to host the debates...
...early August, he received an e-mail from the group asking if he would like to travel to Sudan with a Swiss rescue group, Christian Solidarity International (CSI), in order to see first-hand what the AASG was fighting...
...Vidal knows politics first-hand. He grew up in Washington, D.C., where his grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as senator from Oklahoma; Vidal's father was FDR's director of air commerce. His stepsister was Jackie Kennedy, and through her he became a friend of Jack Kennedy. Vidal himself was an unsuccessful candidate for a congressional seat in 1960, a race in which he was endorsed by friend and neighbor Eleanor Roosevelt. Some of "The Best Man" came straight out of this background. "I showed the play to Jack [Kennedy] and he gave me a couple of lines," Vidal recalls...
Phillips said the IOP hired Mahuad because of his first-hand experience in government...
...Affleck spoke of first-hand experience with Harvard as an employer--both his parents worked at the University--and called Harvard's actions "inexcusable...