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...while Johnson was President, he was driven to make the most unlikely comparison: the L.B.J. Ranch, it occurred to him, had "odd echoes of Chartwell," the country place of Winston Churchill. "Mr. Churchill was marvelously and unashamedly proud of everything about Chartwell . . ." Alsop said years later. "But he was proudest of all of his goldfish pond . . . 'See that one there,' he would say . . . 'the one that looks rather like Clement Attlee? I paid only 10 shillings for that one -- worth fully two pounds now, I dare say.' " Alsop was reminded of his visit to Chartwell when he toured the L.B.J...
These calls for protests on Commencement day are completely unacceptable. My parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins are travelling great distances to see one of the proudest days of my life. To have such a once-in-a-lifetime event marred by protesters--whether they be supporters of gays in the military or conservatives who support the status quo--would be wrong. Commencement should be a ceremonious and dignified occasion; protests of any kind have no place at such an event...
That ought to be enough for any managing editor of TIME, but it is not what Muller is proudest of. It is his selection of the Endangered Earth as the Planet of the Year in 1988, a daring play on TIME's traditional Man of the Year choice. Says he: "We took a story that was all around us but that no one had treated in the depth it deserved. And we produced a list of solutions that stand up very well today...
...Franklin Roosevelt once said, "All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified." As an admirer of both Reich and Roosevelt, Clinton views their analyses as crucial to his overarching goal. His proudest achievement so far, he says -- his "enduring legacy" -- is that he taught the people of Arkansas to "think long term. It's what I want most to do nationwide. It won't be easy and it will require a constant dialogue with the country, but it has to be done...
...dictatorship into a civil society and "a law-based state." The current hearings are intended as a continuation of that process. If Gorbachev were to have his day in court and rebut the hard-liners, it might help the liberal justices block the reactionaries and keep alive his own proudest legacy...