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...when the Ford Foundation, acting on behalf of the Pakistani government, approached the Harvard School of Public Administration and its dean, Edward Mason. The Foundation, it was agreed, would fund a three-year field project in Pakistan to be carried out by Harvard personnel. David E. Bell, a former Truman advisor on a Rockefeller fellowship here who later headed the Agency for International Development, was chosen to supervise the field operation. In 1962, with a Harvard team still in Pakistan, a $750,000 Ford Foundation grant established the DAS on a permanent basis and placed it under the administrative aegis...
...CFIA has its roots in the political and intellectual pressures of Cold War diplomacy. The election of Eisenhower in 1952 and the subsequent ascendancy of McCarthyism caused a prolonged, steady exodus from Washington of former Truman advisors and government officials who had been hunted down and indicted by Senate subcommittees. Many of these people retired to universities around the country, and a large number of them found their way to Harvard. Abruptly dislodged from the practice of internal and international politics, they were seeking, many of them, an outlet for their talents...
BEYOND the nucleus of the 15 Fellows, there was another rationale for starting the CFIA. "There was a feeling that international affairs was underrepresented at Harvard," according to Thomas C. Schelling, who had held several high economic posts in the Truman administration and who had left Yale in 1958 to join the Harvard Center. "There was a feeling that the United States had been a very isolated country for many generations," and that foreign affairs was "an academic field that most universities weren't equipped to teach or think about...
...have lost both their fire and their function and thus are no longer relevant to the workingman. He paid his respects to labor's past heroes. "The liberalism of the old elite was a venturesome and fighting philosophy-the vanguard political dogma of a Franklin Roosevelt, a Harry Truman, a John Kennedy. But you know and I know that the old fire-horses are long gone...
...Kennedys. He was one of the most unusual prelates in the history of the American Catholic Church. His instincts flowed from the heart rather than the head. When he took over the see of Boston from autocratic William Cardinal O'Connell in 1944, it was much like Harry Truman's taking over from Franklin Roosevelt...