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A bulky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) man with a prognathous jaw and bold forehead, Schmitt is an exceptionally articulate spokesman for his profession, promoting it in informal conversations and speeches that are remarkably free from technical jargon. "I believe the brain is knowable," he says. He is also an enthusiastic...
The policymaking restraints imposed on Kissinger by domestic political matters and Nixon's re-election campaign have been removed. Now he can face more basic considerations: how to maintain American prestige and economic power in the world. Kissinger's biggest problem is his lack of economic expertise and...
He was no saint. Nor was he the best White House aide in all history. But he was an oasis of consideration and sympathy in a Teutonic desert of heel clicks and "Yes, sirs."
There was a touch of Teutonic pomp, but the circumstances were markedly different from those of 1936. The colors were cool, breezy pastels, not the strident Nazi red and black; it was Willy Brandt's gemütlich Munich, not Hitler's dark Berlin. With a fanfare of...
The roster of founders and officers of the League--Fiske, Henry Lee, Henry Parkman, Robert Treat Paine, Leverett Saltonstall, Charles Warren,--is like a list of the academic and social leaders of Boston in 1894. By the time the League was founded, they were no longer the political leaders, for...