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...What difference does a mother make? Rearrange a few biographies. Suppose Nixon had been raised by a mother more along the lines of, say, Winston Churchill's - Jennie Randolph, no saint but a fairly negligent absentee? Would that have made Nixon Churchillian? Suppose, at the other extreme, that Nixon had been dealt the hand (a straight flush) of little Franklin Roosevelt. Suppose Nixon had grown up - not in his bleakly struggling Whittier, California, with the gas station and the saint and the angry, punitive Dad - but as a darling of the Hudson River gentry, doted upon as an only child...
...Forum: Joshua I. Weiner ‘03, Harvard Political Review Editor: Jason T. Sauer ‘02, Harvard Political Union: Previn Warren ‘04, Internships: Adam J. Wienner ‘04, Projects: Heather A. Woodruff ‘03, Study Groups: Randall J. Winston...
...Winston Groom Author, Forrest Gump To try to tell someone who wasn't there about your experiences is like trying to describe the color blue to a blind man. I served as a lieutenant with the 4th Infantry Division. I was a psychological-warfare officer. I didn't say anything about my war experiences for years. I remember going out to the scene of a big fire fight?40 to 50 bodies, horribly mutilated, that had been dragged into this field. My job was to take pictures of them. The pictures would be put on leaflets that would be dropped...
...knees to invite Jesus Christ into his life. Then he rose and poured out all the alcohol in the house. Her family had never been very religious before. But Roni embraced her dad's conversion as her own. At age 17, she entered the tiny Piedmont Baptist College in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she vowed to date only boys who wanted, like her, to be missionaries. As she wrote in the essay: "Seriously! Whenever I was asked out, even for ice cream, my first question would be, 'What do you want to do when you graduate...
...Winston Churchill, as we know, stayed up late in order to drink brandy and smoke cigars. In the morning when he came to, he would breakfast on a whisky and water, and then work in bed for hours. He was perhaps the exception proving Henry Luce's rule that no man who stays in bed after nine a.m. will ever amount to anything...