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Still, in choosing Saxbe, the President was forced to overlook an extraordinary record for candor displayed by the Ohio Senator, frequently at the Administration's expense. Shortly after arriving in Washington, Saxbe visited the White House and told Nixon that he had been elected to end the Viet Nam War and that "if he hung onto it, it would be his war." The Senator did not receive another White House invitation for more than four years. That was doubtless fine with John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, the President's two top advisers at the time, who were referred...
AMERICA'S low tolerance for turmoil and its self-generated alienation from politics may well cause the trend towards one-man rule to accelerate so that executive rule becomes accepted in name as well as deed. One cannot afford to overlook the possibility that the illusion of republicanism will be dispensed with and that the United States will set out on the road of dictatorship and autocracy. It is not an enviable possibility, but a real possibility nevertheless...
Lewis emphatically agrees. While some 40,000 volumes of the Yale edition have been sold (at $20 each), Lewis does not expect many scholars to read the complete set. "But," he adds, "no serious student of this period can afford to overlook this work. It has become the encyclopedia of the 18th century." It has also become, for Lewis, the culmination of a lifetime devoted to collecting...
...remainder of Dean Rudenstein's letter, it is a pathetic example of the pathological patronizing behavior that white administrators display in regard to the self-destructive antics of black separatists among Negro students. That black separatists on white campuses can overlook the crypto-racist aspect of the patronizing behavior of white administrators like Dean Rudenstein. Harvard admission Dean Fred Jewett and the executive officials at Harvard and consider them as allies is the most ironic and distressing feature of the crisis of blacks at white colleges. But I have a different reaction: God save us from our so-called white...
...Saturday's season opener against UMass, sophomore Dan Jiggetts was the only black in uniform on the Harvard side of the field. It was a hard thing to overlook...