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...Truman emerged as a compromise choice for Vice-President. Three months after he took office, F.D.R.'s death placed Truman in the White House. Yet in spite of this accidental assumption of the office, many historians, such as Clinton Rossiter and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., have rated him in retrospect among the greatest of American presidents...
...President of the U.S. except Lincoln (in retrospect, now to be considered another impeachable character) has ever been more savaged by the press than Nixon. For one solid year the press has been beating on him mercilessly. And he has shown that he can take it and take it and take it, with cool and courage. But few journalists-none on TIME-have had even the sportsmanship, no less the journalistic objectivity, to report that whatever Nixon is or is not, he is one helluva gutsy fighter. To be sure, the capacity to take punishment as well as dish...
...turned out, when the students protested, the Institute's administration apologized. "Obviously in retrospect and in view of the questions that have been made I wish there had been more student input," Price said this week, "If I were doing it again I would talk more with the students...
...friends who have talked with him in the last week, Kiely does not dispute the facts of either controversy: his exercise of influence in getting jobs for a close friend and his selective revealing of exam questions in English 166. What's more, friends say, he believes that in retrospect both actions were probably unwise. But above all, he feels he has been singled out for attack for actions which are considered commonplace at Harvard, and that these attacks will only hurt the cause of liberal education reform he feels he stands...
...issue is not whether Kiely's personal judgment was, in retrospect, wrong. What's wrong is that Kiely could provide a job for someone on the basis of only his personal judgement and no one else's, in spite of the fact that his judgment may have been colored by his friendship for the individual involved...