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...itself most starkly. Woodrow Wilson immediately proposed a typically American solution. From the New World, a new way to do international business: open covenants, openly arrived at. America would indeed enter the corrupting arena of great power politics -- but incorruptibly, without secrets. In 1929 Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson found out about American code-breaking and interception operations. He abruptly terminated them with his deservedly famous dictum, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail...
...policies toward development must be examined, evaluated and carried out within the perspective of general U.S. foreign policy and, more broadly, general U.S. economic policy," said Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law Milton Katz...
Woodrow Wilson knew about that half a century ago. "The only strength that any man can boast of and be proud of is that great bodies of his fellow citizens trust him and are ready to follow him," said Wilson. The venerated statesman Henry Stimson, who served as Secretary of State and twice as Secretary of War, also knew. "The only way to make a man trustworthy," Stimson used to say, "is to trust...
...mission: "To make the justice system a reality for the criminal." Nearly three years into his four-year appointment by President Reagan, he has done just that by snaring high-living mobsters, low-life drug dealers, quiet white-collar criminals and loud banner headlines. Like Thomas Dewey and Henry Stimson, earlier New York prosecutors who parlayed their convictions into prominent national careers, Giuliani has become a high-profile, white-hatted gangbuster in an age when the public yearns for someone to prove that crime doesn...
...Stimson Professor of Law Emeritus Martin M. Katz '27, who once taught Sullivan, said he has endorsed him and given money to several of his earlier campaigns...