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...acting dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Brown-Beasley wrote: "Since there are no 'final solutions,' constant criticism from within is our only hope for progress. Those who 'cannot absorb constant criticism' might well be reminded of the admonition attributed to President 'Give 'Em Hell, Harry' Truman: 'If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.' The Harvard administration is not a dumping ground for third-raters...Dearest friend, this is supposed to be Harvard...
Sometimes the revelations came in the candidates' words. One of the newsmen quizzing the candidates asked Kennedy if he owed Nixon an apology for former President Harry Truman's remark that those who vote for Nixon and the Republican Party "ought to go to hell." Kennedy replied lightheartedly: "I really do not think there is anything that I can say to President Truman that is going to cause him, at the age of 76, to change his particular speaking manner. Perhaps Mrs. Truman can, but I do not think...
...pursuit of power follow the news. But book reading is something special. Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman were three who indulged. John Kennedy could speed-read 1,200 words a minute, so he was able to continue consuming books even in the White House. Carter also took a speed-reading course but claims no records; yet he fully intends to keep up with important books should he win the November election, though campaigning will slow his consumption until then...
Carter's favorite poet is Dylan Thomas, and he has read most of his works. He liked Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, an account of Kennedy's presidency. He thought Plain Speaking, the profile of Harry Truman by Merle Miller, was especially instructive. His favorite "trade book" is The Presidential Character, an analysis by Duke University's James David Barber of the traits that make for strong and weak chief executives...
...families to put up reporters and visitors who were unable to find hotel space. The committee also set up booths in big hotels to help visitors find their way around and provided tours of the city. One of the biggest attractions for the Republican delegates: the Harry S. Truman Library and gravesite in nearby Independence, which drew 2,700 sightseers on the first day of the convention. Other features of the tourist route: the Nelson Gallery of Art (also the scene of an enormous 1,500-guest reception attended by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller the evening before the convention began...