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Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush’s statements and behavior—“always very shallow”—still stand out in his mind...
...Whenever [Bush] just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make,” said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. “The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice...
Yoshihiro Tsurumi, an avowed opponent of Bush’s current views and policies who was a visiting associate professor of international business at HBS between 1972 and 1976, said Bush was among 85 students he taught one year in a required first-year course. In the class on “Environment Analysis for Management,” incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week...
...Tsurumi said he particularly recalls Bush’s right-wing extremism at the time, which he said was reflected in off-hand comments equating the New Deal of the 1930s with socialism and the corporation-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission with “an enemy of capitalism...
...Japanese had heart to enter the argument; they were too busy burying the dead and worrying about the survivors. Of the 274 hospitalized miners, an alarming 100 were suffering from amnesia. As traffic resumed on the Tokyo-Yokohama line, the trains moved slowly past Tsurumi and sobbing passengers dropped bouquets at the accident spot. Railway workers collected the flowers and reverently arranged them on an embankment beside the track...