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Outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers has pocketed a thank-you note from an unlikely ally in the Bush cabinet: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who praised the former Clinton administration official for supporting the military's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program at Harvard...
Despite the program's historically rocky relationship with the Harvard campus, Summers welcomed ROTC with open arms. In his short tenure as president, Summers spoke out in support of the program's role and appeared at its annual commissioning ceremonies—acts that did not go unnoticed by the Pentagon...
...recognized the special career challenges those students chose to pursue; and in doing so, you honored all of your students and faculty," Rumsfeld writes in his letter, dated May 31. "Through your actions, you provided every ROTC student with an important sense of belonging, and for that I am most grateful...
Prior to Summers' tenure, no Harvard president had spoken at an ROTC commissioning ceremony since the program was evicted from campus at the height of the Vietnam War. The Faculty Council later voted in 1994 that Harvard's nondiscrimination policies banned it from funding students' participation in the program...
Today, Harvard students participating in ROTC drill at MIT with funding from anonymous alumni, but Summers has worked to forge closer ties...