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...Likewise for the strong-willed Hanna H. Gray, who as president emeritus of the University of Chicago and a former interim president of Yale knows exactly what it took to manage a modern university. As decade ago, Gray—then an Overseer—sat on the committee that selected Rudenstine. Harvard's search was her fourth in four years, having also sat on the executive search committees for Bryn Mayr College, the Smithsonian Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Some had even taken to calling her the "Kingmaker...
...thus, the line-up was made. Seven men, two women. Seven New Yorkers, one Alaskan (Gagnon) and one Chicagoan (Gray). All independently wealthy. All but one white...
...like it was blowing through the short list too quickly. At one point around New Year's, the committee spent part of a meeting discussing the idea of an interim president, a "placeholder" who would hold the job until the "perfect" president came along—much like what Gray had done for Yale years ago. In the end, though as the list narrowed to the final five, then four, then three, the committee became satisfied with the available pool...
...After a short celebration, elated committee members—Houghton, Gray, Gagnon, and Stone—Summers and University spokesperson Joe Wrinn piled into a convoy of chauffeured sedans and raced for Newark airport. There awaited Houghton's private Corning jet, ready to whisk them to Cambridge and a scheduled 5:30 p.m. press conference to announce to the world that Summers would be the 27th president of Harvard University...
...looking at the world. How different Truman was from Roosevelt. Both my parents were journalists, and, believe it or not, I picked up the Roosevelt-Truman difference, even when I was five. How different Eisenhower was from Truman. When Ike left in 1961, he seemed a gray old man and there was JFK, young and bright and handsome and - as it seemed that first spring, after the Bay of Pigs - dangerously inexperienced. Lyndon Johnson, flying home from Dallas, transformed Washington overnight... Nixon after Johnson... Ford after Nixon, Carter after Ford, Reagan after Carter, and so on, to Bush...