Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with one by providing seven minority organizations with seats and setting up the student relations committee with outside representation These provisions not only assured representation of all students but did so with the least alteration of democratic principles and without losing student support Unfortunately, the Faculty, in its infinite wisdom, disagreed...
...created a huge vacuum in the entire debate over the war. The result was that the so-called peace movement came to be driven by a relatively tiny group of radicals, whose public support was insignificant. To that most vocal hard core of dissenters, the issue was not the wisdom of a particular American commitment but the validity of American foreign policy in general and indeed of American society. They saw the war as a symptom of an evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet Nam as a put-upon, heroic...
General Earle Wheeler, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, thought I would be most comfortable with an officer with advanced degrees from famous institutions. Having taught at Harvard, I rated somewhat lower the wisdom evidenced by such degrees. I sought a more rough-cut type, someone with combat experience, familiar with operational planning. Alexander M. Haig Jr., then a colonel at West Point, was recommended by conservatives and liberals. I offered him the post after one interview...
Pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until in our despair there comes wisdom through the awful grace...
...presidential meeting I was free of tension. It was impossible to talk to Nixon without wondering what other game he might be engaged in. It was exciting but draining, even slightly menacing. With Ford, there were no hidden designs, no morbid suspicions, no complexes. I reflected again on the wisdom of providence. Gerald Ford was clearly not Nixon's first choice as successor; John Connally was. I could think of no public figure better able to lead us in national renewal than this man so quintessentially American, of unquestioned integrity, at peace with himself, thoughtful and knowledgeable, calm...