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...Clinton was known to shout, curse and rehit balls until he liked his shot, Obama never cuts a corner in golf, say his companions. No mulligans. No five-foot gimme putts on the green. "I've never seen him get to the point where he just picks up," says Marvin Nicholson, the White House trip director and a regular partner. "I've seen him write a 10 down. I've seen him write an 11 down." (See the top 10 U.S. Open golf duels...
...When [McNamara] left, he was already a very sick, disheartened, and dispirited person, so much so that at his last news conference...he broke down in tears, in front of the President and the cameras," said Marvin L. Kalb, a Kennedy School professor who, as a former journalist, knew McNamara personally. "It was a sad thing to observe, for somebody who was so confident that he knew how to run the war, to leave in tears and in full awareness that he had failed...
...FOMC emerged from a two-day meeting on June 24, though, it didn't even offer a definite signal on that. "There's clearly a debate going on within the Fed as to what they should do next, and there's no need to make a decision yet," says Marvin Goodfriend, a former chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond who now teaches at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business. "The Fed is essentially buying time before it commits to whether the disinflation risk is greater or the inflation risk is greater." (See pictures of the dangers...
Kennedy School Professor Emeritus Marvin Kalb, whose area of expertise also includes Iran, also said he does not see a new regime taking charge, even if the current structure will have to accommodate new realities. “No matter what happens over the next couple of weeks and months, the government of Iran cannot stay the same,” Kalb said...
...could have, we would have. Everybody loved Marvin. I found out a lot of things about Marvin and his childhood after he was gone, which was too late. And even today I think about him and I say, God, if I had known that, perhaps I could've helped my brother. I could have done something or said something. We would have done everything we could've to help...