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Rudenstine has a pulpit, and is trying to use it to change Harvard. But McArthur, by operating behind the scenes and getting things done at wrap-speed, may now be the most powerful person at the University...
...order to exert any real pressure, Harvard must server its connection to ROTC. By affirming its own ethical stand against discrimination, the University would be sending an urgent message to Washington, and to the rest of the country. Harvard could credibly use its bully pulpit to decry the military's ban on gays as nothing more than a homophobic defense of the status quo, similar to another by-gone era, when the military's ban on Black Americans was nothing more than a racist defense of another status...
Throughout the tumultuous first year of his presidency, Clinton often embraced the power of the presidential pulpit to push his legislative agenda. His rousing addresses to Congress on the budget and health care are only the most prominent examples...
...until recently he had used his bully pulpit only to urge congressional action, failing to realize that presidential speech has a potency apart from its effect on Capitol Hill...
...Saturday, November 13, though, President Clinton seemed at last to realize that a president has two avenues for influencing American life: legislative agenda-setting and aggressive use of what Teddy Roosevelt called the bully pulpit...