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...Hall, talking about closing down the pinko-rags, would also show up in the White House and the Vice-President's offices. I think now that I have two-and-a-half years perspective on the whole occasion (laughter), I think what I can say is that all I regret about those years when we were running The Crimson is that we were or that I was excessively cautious, too afraid that being an irritant to the University was something bad, that if those running the institution were upset with the paper that was a sign that something was wrong...
Roosevelt's letter and The Crimson's militance brought sharp criticism in the letter column, but the policies of the 1917 editors grew more hawkish until April, when war was declared. The only regret expressed it, the editorial on the declaration was the delay of a "timid" government in jumping into battle. Three inch wooden block letters announced simply "WAR" in the two middle columns. The fourth column announced that Harvard Athletics were suspended; the first that the new Hockey captain had gone to Exeter...
...speech at Leverett House on May 1, 1963. Alpert expressed regret that Harvard had found it necessary to rule that no undergraduates could take part in his experiments and said he hoped that those who did not understand the drugs or feared new developments would not prevent him and others from continuing the experiments...
Depending on how warmly he feels about a departing subordinate, Richard Nixon accepts resignations with either "deep personal regret," "deep regret," "regret," or simply "appreciation." When Miles W. Kirkpatrick resigned last week after two years as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, a White House spokesman could muster only "appreciation" for Kirkpatrick's services. After some questioning by the press, that lukewarm feeling was heated up a day later to "deep regret." Even so, as a Republican Senator explained: "Nixon expects people to know fundamentally what his philosophy is and generally to follow it. When they...
History shows that Bundy has not been very good at anything since he left Harvard. However, having gotten into the habit of wielding enormous power, he has not been able to shake it, much to the regret of many people who did not ask him to wield it and who have not particularly appreciated the results...