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Ward soberly records these efforts to turn Roosevelt into a model boy, waiting for the explosion that never comes. F.D.R. turns into a complaisant youth, somewhat spoiled but eager to please. Schooling at Groton does not greatly change him, and neither does Harvard. When he is Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he claims that his failure to get into Harvard's Porcellian Club 15 years earlier was "the greatest disappointment of my life...
...Staff Donald Regan and Director of Communications Patrick Buchanan are more prone to bluntness. Though Speakes' access to senior presidential aides has improved over the past few months, he has not developed the public relations finesse of a Baker or Deaver. His fuse remains shorter than his good ole boy demeanor suggests. He also allows himself to be annoyed too easily by those correspondents who seem to specialize in baiting officials. With the Great Communicator still on the mend, the testiness that Speakes displays in suffering reporters, fools or otherwise, could crimp the ability of the White House...
...could not bear the smell in the tent. My face was burning with fever, and my eyes and lips grew swollen. By now my arm was in terrible pain, and finally a soldier took me to a doctor. The doctor wanted to amputate, but the soldier said, 'This boy is only 13. He has lots of things to do for our country. Please...
...There were mysterious stories about all these hills," he says, stories of tanuki, strange raccoon-dogs invested with mischievous, magical powers. He tells of a boy who used to go up into the mountains for birds' eggs; the birds nested in the mountains' muddy surface. "One day he asked me to go with him, but I was busy. By evening he had not returned home. His parents were very concerned, and they organized a search party. When the search party came upon the boy, they found him walking in a huge circle, round and round. He kept repeating, 'I have...
Kawamoto did not like having the military around his school, but he appreciates the military values of discipline. He connects discipline with self-knowledge. Once, when he was a very small boy, his father took him in a boat out into the bay and threw him in, to teach the boy to swim. Kawamoto struggled and tried to grab the side of the boat, but his father pushed him off with a pole. Only when the boy sank did his father pull him back. "I asked him why he did not help me sooner. I thought my father was trying...