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19 Sep 2009 09:40 pm
Anecdote Of The Day
This apocryphal tale made me chuckle:
"I remember back in the late 1990s, when Ira Katznelson, an eminent
political scientist at Columbia, came to deliver a guest lecture. Prof.
Katznelson described a lunch he had with Irving Kristol during the
first Bush administration.
The talk turned to William Kristol, then Dan Quayle's chief of
staff, and how he got his start in politics.
Irving recalled how he
talked to his friend Harvey Mansfield at Harvard, who secured William a
place there as both an undergrad and graduate student; how he talked to
Pat Moynihan, then Nixon's domestic policy adviser, and got William an
internship at the White House; how he talked to friends at the RNC
[Republican National Committee] and secured a job for William after he
got his Harvard Ph.D.; and how he arranged with still more friends for
William to teach at Penn and the Kennedy School of Government.
"With that, Prof. Katznelson recalled, he then asked Irving what he
thought of affirmative action. 'I oppose it,' Irving replied. 'It
subverts meritocracy.' "
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