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...There's nothing in these discussions that scholarship hasn't already addressed," said Richard E. Neustadt, professor of public administration at the Kennedy School. But Neustadt emphasized the tapes' value as historical tools...
...Neustadt recalled observations made by Robert F. Kennedy '48 after the crisis. Kennedy had said if the decision had been made in three hours, the course of action would have produced much more serious repercussions...
...transcript gives bite to Kennedy's comment," Neustadt said...
...other Harvard experts interviewed saw in the speech growing political realism in the President, considered by some a hard-lined ideologue. Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer Professor of Public Administration said that Reagan's speech showed increasing concern with political opposition in the House, which has become increasingly defiant of Reagan in recent months. "At this juncture it's too difficult to tell if he's acting out of calculated bargaining or simple conviction," the former advisor to John F. Kennedy '40 said. Neustadt noted that when Presidents are facing serious opposition, they usually ask for more than they want...
...President needs perseverance, and personal ambition within healthy Limits. A fashionable cynicism is that anybody so ambitious that he would put up with what it takes to get nominated and elected is morally disqualified for the presidency. Neustadt puts it more sensibly: Presidents need "drive but not drivenness." L.B.J., Nixon and Carter were all driven. Henry Graff of Columbia notes that we like a presidential candidate to look "called," though it is hard to achieve this effect when you are trying to sell yourself...