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...surrounded by chanting protesters. "Mac is going to spend the rest of his life trying to justify his mistakes on Vietnam," commented his closest friend, Kingman Brewster, who was named president of Yale in 1963 after Kennedy talked Bundy out of accepting the job. He became president of the Ford Foundation (which in a different world would have come later, after being Secretary of State), wrote a thoughtful tome on the relationship between the atom bomb and diplomacy (with scant mention of Vietnam), and headed a Carnegie Corporation project studying nuclear proliferation...
...fellowships for Abimbola and Eltis are funded by the Ford Foundation. According to the institute, the Ford Foundation is continuing its effort to strengthen Harvard's Afro-American Studies department by funding these two senior African scholars
...Choate was once Tennessee's economic-development commissioner: after he left in 1974, a state audit found his office had spent extravagantly (on staff trips and entertainment) and had "completely violated" laws regarding competitive bidding, but he was never formally charged. He later held sub-Cabinet jobs in the Ford and Carter administrations and counseled such national politicians as Gary Hart and Richard Gephardt. He was credited with alerting many politicians to the problems of preserving U.S. competitiveness and maintaining the nation's infrastructure. True, he has a penchant for apocalyptic statements--e.g., the U.S. might become a "Japanese economic...
...attempt to throw McNamara overboard during a ferry ride to Martha's Vineyard in 1972. Many of Hendrickson's scenes and anecdotes first appeared in the Washington Post in the mid-'80s. Here the journalist looks further into McNamara's brilliant careers at the Harvard Business School and the Ford Motor Co. The record reveals a top-of-the-line number cruncher steeped in the values of corporate loyalty. But as Secretary of Defense, his mistakes cost lives, not shareholder dividends. And yet his responsibilities required a level of abstraction and analysis that seems to have put him on another...
Dole had wanted to be President ever since running with Gerald Ford in 1976. He tried hard in 1980 and harder in 1988 but failed famously, as Ronald Reagan and George Bush won the G.O.P. nomination in those years. "I never thought I'd be doing this again," Dole said in the summer of 1995. "But things just kind of came together to make one more try for the thing...