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...combination of the requirements and goals of individual services-Army, Navy, Air Force-each trying to get as much money as it could. Nobody judged these claims in the light of an overall, supra-service plan based on the total military, political and economic interest of the U.S. Insofar as there was any standard for resolving conflicts and putting the budget together, the Joint Chiefs used what they called "the balanced-forces concept." This was a high-sounding name for the convenient but irrational practice of splitting the money in three roughly equal parts...
...immediate superior said "the implications made regarding the football community are absurd and not worthy. of comment." This statement reminded the University that the students and officials who devote their time to the Harvard football team form a close-knit community with a long and proud tradition. But insofar as it implied this case was unique, the retort was dead wrong. In the last two days it has become unmistakably clear that there is something rotten in the "football community...
...most apalling. For when the buying and selling of "complimentary" seats is a systematized as it has been, a football player might just as well be receiving a weekly salary. As commercial as free books or automobiles donated by alumni, such brokerage taints the supposed purity of Harvard football. Insofar as the University allows this practice to flourish, it is subverting the progress it has made along other lines to keep Harvard football an amateur sport...
...leaders. For the President's remarkable personal popularity makes his support valuable to any candidate. But regardless of motivation, both his first and last positions were wrong. Neither recognized the necessity of maintaining a balance between the national and party obligations of the Presidency. The middle attitude comes closer, insofar as it recognizes a President's interest in continued control of Congress by his party, but recognizes also this fact: Eisenhower can help Republicans more next year by pushing through his middle-of-the-road program than by stumping Congressional districts...
...President's program is the link between his party and his national duties. If he sincerely wants to effectuate his program he has an obligation to his party only insofar as his party supports him. Usually, the bulk of a President's support does come from this quarter. But in Eisenhower's case, he was not only elected by dissident Democratic voters: much of his support comes from Democrats in Congress. Those Republicans who have knifed the President in his efforts to push his program, he has no obligation to support...