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...asked that about ((the invasion of)) Cambodia once after a speech at Oxford. I said, "Yes, I wish I'd done it sooner." That was a shocker. And going further, Why didn't you do the May 8 bombing and mining sooner? Why didn't you do the December bombing sooner? And the point was, it should have been done sooner, but for one thing, I didn't feel first that the traffic would bear it within the Administration...
SEVERAL Black men have been sighted around Harvard's campus in black berets and Army-style boots. The same men are seen in sections wearing button-down Oxford shirts and black ties...
...second son of a Belfast lawyer, Lewis never quite recovered from the death of his mother when he was nine. After graduating from Oxford, he predictably became a teacher there. Less expectably, he began to live with Janie ("Minto") Moore, who had been deserted by her husband; she was Lewis' senior by 25 years. Initially lovers, or so Wilson speculates, they settled into a surrogate mother-son relationship after their unorthodox menage was joined by Lewis' elder brother Warren, who had been cashiered from the army for alcoholism...
...invited me to lunch in late May and there gave me a list of people to look up in England; he knew everyone there. During dessert, I remarked with a chuckle that the University was having trouble finding a place for me at Oxford and would probably stick me in a broom closet. My comment evoked what I took to be an insignificant "oh, really...
After studying economics and political science for a year at Oxford University, Weld attended Harvard Law School. He went to work shortly after at the prestigious Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow, where he began amassing contacts in the Boston business and law communities. He adds associates from his five-year tenure as U.S. attorney for Massachusetts and his stint as assistant attorney general heading up the criminal division under the Reagan administration to the long list of potential contributors...