Word: leadership
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...briefly quiescent after the shocks and divisions of 1968. But it is also somber and unsure; the vexing dilemmas of Viet Nam, racial tension and urban disintegration all remain unresolved. There is a vacuum in the nation's leadership, and once Richard Milhous Nixon takes the oath of office next week to become the 37th President of the U.S., there will not be much time before he must act to fill it. Still, like most of his predecessors, he starts his term with the good will and high expectations of his fellow citizens. A Louis Harris poll released last...
Powell has never got on well with the "squirearchy" that rules Conservative politics. In 1965, when he made his only attempt so far to take over the leadership, he was counted out in the first round of voting with a minuscule 15 votes out of 298. Even now Powell possesses no organized following within the Tory party. But Powell has clearly seized on a ready-made issue of enormous appeal that cuts across class and party lines. Though he is a much more thoughtful man than George Wallace, to whom he is often compared in Britain, Powell stands to profit...
Most important of all, this memorandum will challenge the Harvard Faculty to take a bold position in support of an unpopular but totally logical and just issue now confronting the academic community, nation-wide. It will call upon Harvard to demonstrate, positively, its traditional role of national leadership...
...Army Officer Corps is unthinkable. The armed forces simply cannot function--nor should they be expected to function in our complex society--without an officer corps comprised largely of college graduates, just as most of our national institutions these days rely upon college educated men for their leadership. Who is prepared to trust their sons--let alone the nation's destiny--to the leadership of high school boys and college drop-outs? Only the grossly uninformed or narrowly bigoted critic could fail to comprehend that the armed forces have a perfectly valid need for a fair share of the time...
...teach some military skills while the officer candidate is still in college. Also, we are convinced from bountiful experience that we must conduct some kind of meaningful military training in the on-campus ROTC program in order to observe our students enough to make critical judgments about their leadership potential and aptitude for military service, hence their worthiness for a commission...