August 3, 2001

The Scholar-Courtier and the Scholar-Politician

By MICHAEL NELSON

Both of them were tenured Harvard professors who, from early in their careers, aspired to affect, not just observe and analyze, the course of public affairs. Both became controversial figures, enduring attacks from either end of the political spectrum, but especially from the left. Although both had sometimes expressed disdain for Richard M. Nixon and neither supported his candidacy for president in 1968, each accepted eagerly when Nixon invited him to join the White House staff shortly after

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