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...primacy of the Secretary of State is crucial. Since the office of Secretary of Defense was created after World War II, there have been only two who were more powerful than their counterpart at State: Robert McNamara over Dean Rusk in the 1960s and Donald Rumsfeld over Colin Powell in George W. Bush's first term. McNamara and Rumsfeld presided over the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Indeed, the primacy of Rumsfeld and his patron Dick Cheney has created a deep wound. Their constant undermining of the U.S. intelligence community, the putdowns of "old Europe," their impatience with U.N. inspectors...
Following McNamara, Wilner delivered the Senior English Address. In "Daring to Choose," Wilner asked his peers to ask the question, "How do I want to live...
Next year, Wilner will take part in the Philosphy, Policy, and Economics program at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. As for McNamara, he will be in Mississippi with Teach for America...
With the force of Harvard taking these two orators and their peers forward, McNamara believes that "if the force of Harvard is at all similar to the force of the Jedi, I'm fairly confident that Harvard has done its job and we could even save a planet...
...initial version of the June 7, 2007 web update "Seniors Deliver Graduation Oratories" gave an incorrect name for Charles J. McNamara '07. His first name is not Christopher...