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Ivy’s Dark Underside By CHRIS LINCOLN Friday, April 21, 2006 2:02 AM As one Ivy coach put it, “The irony is that the Ivy League, by trying to be ‘holier than thou,’ has made the athletic recruiting process uglier than in any other Division I conference in the country...
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...those days, presidents didn't speak out like they do today. In fact, when Lincoln stood up before this huge meeting, he said "I believe there's no precedent for my appearing before you on this occasion." It's the same contrast when Roosevelt was on the radio during World War II. He delivered maybe three fireside chats a year during the war, which meant they had an enormous impact. Today presidents have a radio chat every week. They're no longer special moments...
...healthiest thing for the presidency would be if it occurred at the time when decisions were taking place. That's one of the reasons Lincoln's Cabinet was so strong, because he had all these rivals right inside the Cabinet . They did fight each other - endlessly. The Cabinet meetings were quite fiery and they had all different points of view because they came from different pieces of the political spectrum. The more you can encourage that kind of open discussion, the better...
...going on is to sustain the morale and support of the American people to fight as long as necessary, and to give them the aims of the war which they believe in, so they're willing to continue to sacrifice until those aims are met. That's why Lincoln's address at Gettysburg was so central. It gave people, in such soaring language, the idea that these young men who had died had not died in vain. In World War II, there was a consensus over what had to be done in fighting Hitler and fascism. Now people...