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...English aristocracy was capable of disastrous follies. There is no more perfect indictment of such leadership than the fatuously self-confident direction by the Lords Raglan and Cardigan of the charge of the Light Brigade. The event must be seen in retrospect not just as a piece of heroic military stupidity (worse ones have occurred since), but as a symbol of what happens to a trained elite that is closed to new blood and new ideas...
...retrospect, Rodino's biggest mistake may have been to push, with solid Republican support, for closed-door hearings on the evidence. Too much of this evidence and allegations against the President had already been made public. Rodino may have sensed that the public would get fed up with the whole issue if it heard the Doar briefings, then the debate over the same evidence in committee, again on the House floor, and finally once more in a Senate trial. Yet open hearings, belatedly backed by the White House, would at the least have largely eliminated the leak problem...
...committee should meet in closed or open sessions. Another half-day was spent debating whether the committee should decide in advance what constituted an impeachable offense. The committee postponed the decision, chiefly to avoid a partisan showdown. But Republican Representative Delbert Latta of Ohio, a Nixon defender, maintained in retrospect: "If we'd defined an impeachable offense to begin with, we wouldn't have gone so slowly. It would have been clear that largely unproven charges weren't going to be relevant." He was referring to allegations of misconduct that were arguably constitutional or legal, such...
...retrospect, it appeared that almost everyone had helped create the economic problems responsible for the collapse. A series of governments dominated by the Christian Democrats encouraged too speedy and too easy a recovery from three years of recession. Labor unions, bolstered by Socialist and Communist support, made excessive wage demands. When these were not fulfilled, they struck until the country was groggy. Affluence-seeking consumers did their best to make the dolce vita permanent. Inevitably, inflation began to spiral toward a current rate of 20% a year. New worker protests took place, including a massive "park-in" by Rome taxi...
President Bok made a surprise appearance at Memorial Church early one morning soon after the Massacre to praise Cox and to make clear the relevance of the matter to Harvard. "In retrospect," he said, "it appears that he taught us more in government service that he could have hoped to achieve in those Harvard classrooms where we welcome him back with admiration...