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...years as U.S. Ambassador to France, Evan G. Galbraith has achieved something of a reputation for making undiplomatic remarks about his hosts. Last week the former banker and Reaganite turned his scorn on the State Department. After announcing that he would resign in July, Galbraith told the New York Times that career diplomats are overly timid "liberals." Said he: "There's something about the foreign service that takes the guts out of people. The tendency is to avoid confronting an issue." Galbraith's broadside incensed Secretary of State George Shultz, who declared, "Somebody ought to tie his tongue...
Previous commencement speakers at Haverford have included John Kenneth Galbraith, Jim Lehrer, and Barry Commoner...
Harvard Liberalism, A healthy regard for toleration, diversity, and the rights and interests of the underclass. Galbraith, Schlesinger, the Kennedys. That's the model that draws us here, but how much of it is real? How much of what is asserted in the name of liberalism on this campus is merely enlightened self-interest that disappears when out own lives are at stake? Does principled opposition to the death penalty evaporate when the victim is one of us? The evidence does not support the answer we like to hear...
...praise U.S. entrepreneurial dynamism. But the most enthusiastically pro-American politicians, according to polls, are the Gaullists. Although they were hostile to the U.S. in the '60s and early '70s, Gaullists are front and center among the politicians who now scramble to be photographed with U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith. Only the Communists, whose political power is shrinking, remain implacably critical of everything American...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus: "For myself, a nice upholstered street grate on which to sleep. Ronald Reagan says that many people prefer them...