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...reserved for whiz-kids. After three years, he says, he was "just worn-out" and Frank came back to Harvard to try to finish his doctoral dissertation. He soon came to the realization that he was better suited to politics than scholarship and left for a position on the staff of Rep. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.). In May 1972, Frank decided to run for office and was elected to his current position the following November. But he has not abandoned the academic community completely--while serving in the House, Frank has attended Harvard Law School, and expects to be graduated...
...heavy-handedness, and the pressures of the busing crisis. White's liberal image has been severely tarnished in recent years, straining but not breaking his friendship with Frank. Frank notes, "White is clearly to the left of the city on racial matters," and the mayor attracted an outstanding liberal staff during his first two terms which included Hale Champion as the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Fred Salvucci, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation, as the director of the East Boston Little City Hall...
...career seems likely to encounter are the limits to his ambition. Frank has done what the best and the brightest failed to do in the '60s: move from Harvard academics to nitty-gritty government, keeping personal and intellectual integrity intact. A State House veteran who works on McGee's staff said of Frank, "Barney understands the rules of the game and the rules of procedure. Barney will not lead the charge of the Light Brigade. There are some Kamikaze liberals who will. Barney is a good practical...
...climate, the conservative Schlesinger took a teaching post at the University of Virginia, where he wrote a book titled The Political Economy of National Security. It caught the eye of top executives at the Rand Corp., the U.S.'s premier think tank, who hired Schlesinger as a senior staff member. He later became director of strategic studies. At Rand, Schlesinger proved, as one colleague recalls, that "he could out-McNamara Mc-Namara"-then the cerebral Defense Secretary and systems analyst par excellence...
When Schlesinger took over as Secretary of Defense in 1973, he worked overtime at becoming an absolute terror. At 6:15 in the morning he would blaze into his office in such a foul mood that his staff was afraid to speak to him. "He could melt the stars off the shoulders of a four-star general," recalls one former aide. There was an angle in his anger. Schlesinger wanted to dominate the entrenched bureaucracy of the Pentagon, which has defied the mastery of all but two or three of the eleven other Secretaries. He managed to start rebuilding...