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Ralph Schoenstein, the author of "You Can't Be Serious--Writing and Living American History" wrote a clever piece for The Boston Globe highlighting some of the better quotes from the newly-released tape recordings of former president Richard M. Nixon during Watergate and reminding us how the more things change, the more they stay the same. Quoting one of Nixon's exchanges with White House counsel John Dean, Schoenstein points out the Clintonian ring to the president's speech. "They'll hang us," Dean says. "It depends what you mean by hang," Nixon replies...
...Watson '02...Freshman Alexander T. Schmidt '03 has been playing his MP3 of "Mambo #5" for sixteen days straight. Roommate Bobby M. Braithwaite '03 has divided their Holworthy double in half using duct tape and guards his side vigilently with a baseball bat...Kelly Rodriguez '02 and Samuel F. Nixon '01 made eye contact during section yesterday. Could it be love? "Nope," confides Professor of Neurobiology Steven S. Cooper. "Samuel has a debilitating neurological disorder...
Harvard, Richard M. Nixon liked to say, was "the Kremlin on the Charles...
...Does a grown-up make a better president or leader than a needy kid? Not necessarily. Ulysses Grant, an impressively grown-up Civil War general, became a bad president with a corrupt administration. Richard Nixon, a grown-up from the age of five or six, presided over a spectacular train wreck...
...RICHARD NIXON Public release of audiotapes makes one realize how (expletive deleted...