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...Roosevelt Wilson, athletic director at Florida A&M University says that the changes will not have a positive result. "I think the intent to raise academic standards for student athletes was a noble idea, but the proposition itself is no good," he adds. "I am terribly disappointed that some of our finest educators would take a standard as arbitrary as the SAT and use it as a limit when there is no empirical evidence that it shows how well a student will perform...
Curse the telephone, chimed the writers, with one reservation. Theodore Roosevelt wrote 150,000 letters, and his eye-weary biographer, Edmund Morris, joked that he rather wished T.R. had used a telephone more. All at the table were concerned that nowadays Presidents phone Prime Ministers and Senators leaving no record of their conversations. Couldn't Reagan write short notes when he finished his calls? He'd create a mountain of paper, maybe, but 200 years from now his jottings would be invaluable. There followed a minor scholarly disagreement George Nash (The Life of Herbert Hoover, Volume I) mentioned...
...Reagan know, asked Freidel, that Eleanor Roosevelt was for school prayer and against ERA? Nancy was amazed. Eleanor also held regular press conferences, the professor related. Nancy signed...
Edmund Morris, 42, has also completed one volume of a three-part presidential study. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980, and Theodore Rex will appear within two years. Unlike Caro, Morris, who keeps residences on New York City's fashionable Central Park South and in Washington, D.C., is bully on his subject. "I got interested listening to Nixon's farewell speech to his staff," he says, "because he quoted T.R.'s elegy to his dying wife." The result was an unproduced screenplay, The Dude from New York City. Some four years later...
While Caro explores every shred of evidence and exhausts every interview, Morris believes that biographers should keep out of places where they do not be long. Fascinated by T.R.'s courtship of his first wife, Alice Lee, detailed in the future President's diary, Morris nonetheless accepted Roosevelt's brief entry for the couple's wedding night: "Happiness is too sacred to write about." Although this may seem a bizarre attitude for a biographer, Morris is adamant: "If the subject doesn't want you in part of his life, you have no right to invade...