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...Gergen, professor at the Kennedy School of Government and director of Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, sat aside Greenberg for the duration of what was essentially an exchange between two major players in presidential politics. Gergen himself served as an adviser to U.S. presidents Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan and Clinton...
...Huntington served as a top foreign policy adviser to Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who was then vying with Richard Nixon for the White House. That summer, he and longtime pal Henry A. Kissinger ’50 vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard. Kissinger—who had worked for Nelson Rockefeller in the New York governor’s primary bid against Nixon—casually offered to leak Huntington Rockefeller’s secret files on Nixon, Huntington says...
...adds that Kissinger soon retracted the offer and signed on as an aide to Nixon, who won the election...
...Make A President," Charles Krauthammer argued against the apparent Democratic logic that a decorated military man is capable of wise leadership as President [Feb. 23]. The biggest mistake made in Vietnam was to continue the war as President Lyndon B. Johnson did. But Kerry's calling the Vietnam War "Nixon's war" can be justified. Richard Nixon was a cold warrior. He didn't want to lose in Vietnam, and he ordered the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia. Wong Chun Han Singapore...
...though, is that there were too many middle-aged people and not enough students in the audience at the archive. The decades-old wounds explored by The Weather Underground are still far from healing—a fact made clear by the scattered hisses that greeted figures from Richard Nixon to Todd Gitlin, a more moderate figure from the anti-war movement of the 1960s, as they appeared on screen...