William Safire prepared a eulogy for Richard Nixon to deliver should the lunar module fail to get back up into orbit.

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In the age of bosses, that used to be routine: Nixon, Stevenson, Dewey, William Jennings Bryan.

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But who studies the works of Christian Archibald Herter, also a secretary of state under Eisenhower, and William P Rogers, who preceded Kissinger under Nixon?

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