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...love for classical music and gourmet cooking. His image as a crusty, limited man who loved destruction and hated to take prisoners led to some predictions that he would stumble after the war. But he served with distinction in the Pentagon, Europe and Korea, and displayed sensitivity and tact in 1962 and 1963 when President Kennedy called on him to command federal troops during tense racial confrontations at Oxford, Miss., and Tuscaloosa and Birmingham...
Curbing Rancor. Although some of his fellow justices carped about Warren's lack of legal scholarship, he transformed the sometimes fractious atmosphere of the Vinson Court by a mixture of charm, tact and candor. One law clerk, quoted in Leo Katcher's Warren biography, said: "What was lacking was a spirit of 'collegiality.' . . . Warren's job was to try to bring personalities together, not beliefs. He couldn't ask anyone to abandon a deeply held belief, but to accept opposition without rancor...
...twelve-team league. When the Miami franchise started to buckle, he negotiated a move to Philadelphia in less than an hour. In Canada he managed to stop a revolt among owners angered by his frequently abrasive negotiating style. "Gary has a great creative imagination," says an associate, "but tact is not his cup of tea." Davidson disagrees. "The Canadian owners told me I was acting like Hitler. All I said was that if they didn't like it, they could leave the league." The owners gave in, and the W.H.A. was on the ice just two years after Davidson...
...next couple of days my brother-in-law, Ray, kept the legend in tact. He took me around to the best parts of San Francisco. We started with Presidio, one of the most exclusive sections in town; the streets wind around each other, and the houses look out over the Pacific where it meets San Francisco...
...ordinary times, Alexander Haig might have become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or a top Cabinet officer or perhaps a corporation president. He has in abundance the qualities that are needed: intelligence, limitless energy, patience, tact and unswerving devotion to duty and country. Yet in the year of Watergate, these very attributes have landed him in one of the world's toughest and least rewarding jobs: chief of staff of an embattled, imperiled White House, where almost every day brings another revelation, another shift in a defensive strategy that seems only to lose. For a 49-year...