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Charles R. Cherington '35, professor of Government, Frank B. Freidel, professor of History, and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, professor of History differed, however, on the outcome of the key gubernatorial election in New York...
According to Cherington, "Rockefeller might squeak past Harriman," but Freidel and Schlesinger gave the incumbent Governor an edge. All agreed that Rockefeller has gained considerable strength during the campaign and that a victory would make him a good possibility for the Republican Presidential nomination...
Recession and individual local matters are the main campaign issues, according to Freidel. "People don't care as much about Quemoy and Matsu as they do about their own problems...
...teachings of Groton Headmaster Endicott Peabody and the example of his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, according to Freidel, combined to produce in the adolescent F.D.R. a strong sense of social responsibility and a taste for the virile life. Freidel also noted Roosevelt's early concern with being well-liked and his adolescent willingness to accommodate himself to the ways of his prep school classmates in order to gain popularity...
Though stressing Roosevelt's success in manipulating his fellow students at Harvard, Freidel urged that F.D.R. was nevertheless activated by a genuine concern for people, thinking in terms of personalities rather than collective statistics...