Word: vision
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...Dole, by nature as well as nurture, is a fox. When he was lambasted during the primaries for lacking a vision, it was another way of saying, Bob, you're no hedgehog. Dole's beloved job of majority leader is the ultimate fox's occupation. "Bob Dole knew more about more things than anyone else in the Senate," says Lawrence O'Donnell, former staff director of the Senate Finance Committee. "And that was the source of his power." The fox incarnate...
Ronald Reagan was the great postwar hedgehog, and candidates ever since have of necessity sought that same aura. George Bush was as poor at managing "the vision thing" as Dole. In this presidential parlor game, George Washington was a hedgehog, John Adams a fox. Abraham Lincoln was a hedgehog, Harry Truman a fox. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a fox who grew into a supreme hedgehog. Richard Nixon lost as a fox in 1960 but won as a hedgehog in 1968. National crises both demand and create hedgehogs, and hedgehogs go down in history as the great Presidents. And in this...
...members of the Harvard community should know that City Year might never have been started, would not be engaging over 700 young people today for a year of community service or have served as a model for Americorps' 25,000 participants, without the courage, commitment, vision and enormous hard work of Judith Kidd. She is, in all respects, a co-founder and builder of the organization...
...would like to correct certain misrepresentations and distortions of fact in Ramy M. Tadros' and Mohamad M. Al-Ississ' letter ("Netanyahu Lacks Vision and Will for Peace," To the Editors, October...
Netanyahu's slogan of Peace with Security rings hollow. His actions have demonstrated that he lacks both the vision for peace and the will to attain it. --Ramy M. Tadros '97, President, Harvard/Radcliffe Society of Arab Students --Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '00, Member, Harvard/Radcliffe Society of Arab Students