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...university, says Harvard Vice President John Shattuck, it "is still the new kid on the block working to define its mission." Its efforts to be taken seriously academically are hampered by its high visibility as a kind of Betty Ford clinic for recovering politicians: Geraldine Ferraro, David Stockman, David Gergen and former Senator John Culver have had stints there. The rigorous Mid-Career Public Administration program has come to be known as the "mid-life crisis program." The school is also suspect as a relatively painless way to give a Harvard gloss to an undergraduate degree from a land-grant...
...that For the Record was unique in its venom and singular in its criticism. Yet apart from its astrological revelations and acid-limned portrait of the First Lady, it is not so much in a class by itself as the latest addition to a long, groaning shelf. Deaver. Haig. Stockman. Speakes. Regan. Even two Reagan children, Patti and Michael, have written slap-and-yell books about the First Family. And more are on the way. Helene von Damm, once Reagan's personal assistant and later Ambassador to Austria, has reportedly penned something less than a valentine to the First Family...
...criticism that he wrote too soon, Regan argues that many others -- including Haig and David Stockman -- didn't wait until the President had % left office before writing memoirs. Besides, he asks, "Do you think the Reagans should have waited ((before firing him))? Why is it that I have to live with this burden of calumny and slander and omissions...
...Reagan Administration has made a surprisingly poor target. President Reagan has not been playing George Wallace, hurling racist slurs, and chanting "segregation forever." While David Stockman's book reveals some racist attitudes at the White House, and the press worried for a while that Reagan was going to "turn back the clock" on civil rights, the Reagan Administration has taken a pretty low-key posture on civil rights...
Last week Stockman, 41, joined the mass defection from Salomon since October's crash by jumping to merchant bankers the Blackstone Group. He will also start his own affiliated firm, Stockman & Co., thus becoming his own boss at last...