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...retrospect, was Israel's decision not to make a pre-emptive strike but to absorb the first punishing blow from Egyptian and Syrian forces the right...
There was much more, but in retrospect little of it makes sense. John Warnecke was to be the library's architect; the building was to be about two stories tall with only 50,000 square feet on each floor; and the library was to "blend in with the general Harvard architecture...
...retrospect, Ford admits that if he had been a "little smarter," he would have realized that Nixon had dropped him teasing hints. At a meeting of congressional leaders to discuss procedures to be followed in making his nomination, Nixon joshed: "I'd like to be in the shape with the American public that Jerry Ford is." At another, this time private, meeting with the President on V.P. Day, Nixon called in the White House photographer and ordered: "Take this picture. It may be historic." Still, Ford claims he had no inkling that he was the choice until the phone...
President Allende's own life was proof that the tasks he sets before the Mexican students in this speech can be accomplished. This belief, that educated people need not and should not abandon those upon whose bent and broken lives their successes are built, appears even stronger in retrospect, after Allende's tragic death. He remained loyal to his convictions until the end. One only wishes his fellow Chilean doctors had shared his sense of compassion and understanding...
...retrospect, I can be nothing but ashamed of that judgment...