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Cohen, who is the author of the recent book Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime argued that the high stakes of war make necessary a constructive tension between political and military leaders. He faulted Lyndon B. Johnson for failing to ask tough questions of his generals during the Vietnam...
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are decidedly outside the normal run of statesmen who have held high office in the U.S. And the things that make this Administration different will contribute to a terrible war in the near future [Iraq, Oct. 21]. America is behaving like an imperial power, extending its economic and political hegemony and riding roughshod over any opponent who may get in its way. Bush doesn't care whether these organizations and nations have legitimate grounds to question his economic, political and strategic objectives. Such behavior cannot fail to promote war. And there will...
HANOVER, N.H.—In an election season filled with forgotten geriatrics like Walter Mondale, Frank Lautenberg and Elizabeth Dole, it seemed only fitting that Harvard turned to two of its elder statesmen, captain Neil Rose and senior wideout Carl Morris, to defeat Dartmouth on Saturday...
...strings. All those men have gone public with cautionary suggestions for the current President, but the former President did not talk to any of them or review their texts before they wrote and broadcast. Since they left the White House, the elder Bush has treated them as senior statesmen with the right and duty to take part in public debates on the big issues. New time, new struggle, new thoughts abound with everybody...
Economists, statesmen and women speak seriously from the steps of Memorial Church before a crowd of students, parents, professors and dignitaries all poised with the reverence due such a momentous tradition...