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...members of the Hasty Pudding Club decided to honor a woman—at the time in short supply on Harvard’s all-male campus—not for her dedication to the theatrical arts, but for her good looks. The members of the society approached Margaret Truman??€”President Harry’s daughter. Ms. Truman declined...
...history. As he does every year, Summers offered the first-years comfort by relating his own experiences navigating his first semester as president at Harvard in 2001. He told an anecdote about a clerk refusing him a Harvard Coop number because he lacked a Harvard ID, and quoted Harry Truman??€™s salient remarks about his time in the United States Senate: “The first six months I couldn’t figure out why I was there. For the rest of the time, I wondered why the others were there...
During President Harry S. Truman??€™s administration, Cox headed the Wage Stabilization Board for a time but quit when Truman rejected a restricted wage increase proposal...
History is littered with examples of misuse of executive power during wartime. Whether Lincoln’s detention of 13,500 people during the Civil War, Roosevelt’s imprisonment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II or Truman??€™s attempt to take over steel mills during the Korean War, these actions have all undermined the spirit of America’s democracy. The Supreme Court must take strong action against the Bush administration’s authoritarian interpretation of executive power and prevent the mistakes of the past from haunting this country once again...
Previous to his work on Watergate, Cox, a leading labor economist, was chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board in Harry S Truman??€™s administration...