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Critics will point to Gore's youth and to his "patrician background" as making him unfit to be president. Yet "patrician backgrounds" hardly affected the ability of FDR and JFK to govern on behalf of the less fortunate members of our society. Those who bring up Gore's age do so simply because they have nothing more substantial to raise against him, since, at 39, he already possesses 11 years of Congressional experience and a substantive legislative record...
Having witnessed the debacle of Watergate from the inside, Henry Kissinger says that a great reform of American Government would be for presidential contenders to assemble two sets of supporters, one to campaign, the other to govern. A complete separation of duties is, of course, neither possible nor desirable; they must be fused at some point. But winning power and wielding power are now so incompatible that some sort of Kissinger formula should be considered...
Speaking to the faculty, alumni and student group before the signature presentation, Professor of the History of Science Everett Mendelsohn said, "Those who govern Harvard should take their responsibility seriously. They ought not repress the voice of those who teach and learn here...
...refuse PAC money. There was one question of lesser quality; toward the end of the meeting a certain fellow asked if Gary Hart had ever smoked marijuana. The Senator replied that, as to the implicit character inquiry, for 200 years the standard has been the candidate's ability to govern, and as to the specific question of marijuana, to stentorian applause, the Senator told him, "It's none of your business." Mr. Brazaitis missed this, and indeed seems to draw his "information" more from last May's National Enquirer than this February's New York Times...
...Judicial Board has not yet formulated any specific rules or regulations that will govern student behavior. The board is designed to create a common law of sorts through its decisions on specific cases...