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Newt is not going to miss me, but I'm going to miss him. I'll miss his knowledge of Prussian history, his unerring sense of what the Duke of Wellington would do in any situation, his grandiose sense of walking in the boots of Winston Churchill and Ulysses S. Grant. Like Napoleon, he was tall enough to see a future invisible to lesser mortals. A global visionary, he wrote in a calendar unearthed by Slate magazine that on June 30, 1993, he was going to "articulate the vision of civilizing humanity" and, when that was done, "define, plan...
Conscientious citizens should consider it their obligation to visit Resignation.com. Did you know that Winston Churchill resigned? Perhaps our President should stick around after all. Winston doesn't really deserve Slick Willie's kind of company. NOAH D. OPPENHEIM
...join George Washington and Winston Churchill as the other recipients of such an award conferred at a specially convened Convocation is not only a singular honor. It also holds great symbolic significance: To the mind and to the future memory of this great American institution, the name of an African is now added to those two illustrious leaders of the Western world...
Still, some have questioned whether the South African president was worthy to join the ranks of George Washington and Winston Churchill, the only other individual honorary degree recipients whose awards were presented at a special ceremony separate from Commencement or anniversary celebrations...
...half cerebral." Yet the episodes on nuclear strategy, arms control and diplomacy have moments of great intensity and even humor. Interlocking his fingers to illustrate the mutual grip of terror, Robert McNamara explains deterrence and seems amazed himself at the doctrine's horrifying logic. In the episode on detente, Winston Lord, an aide to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon Administration, describes a summit at which Soviet leaders spend hours hectoring the Americans over Vietnam but then, having created a record to send to Hanoi, turn jovial and break out the vodka...