Former director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory honored for service to the Defense Science Board.
In his heyday, Baker was perceived as the silver fox, the scion of an old Texas family who honored public service and disdained politics--except when he was applying his considerable gifts to getting Bush elected.
Clinton honored his service, and the entire chamber applauded him.
"He didn't say anything about the son, in fact he honored his service.
1,464 unclaimed dead in L.A. County honored in memorial service .
Sacred Heart University honored him for community service in 2002, and the Bridgeport Diocese appointed him to a sexual misconduct review board that year.
I was so moved with emotion to be invited to Mescalero to be an honorary pallbearer and to be one of the few honored speakers at her service on Saturday, June 16 , 2012
Today, a day once designated to celebrate the end of one war and now observed as a tribute to those who served in all of them, is perhaps a good time to note a largely unnoticed but revealing little development in the honored observance of veterans' service to their country.
What enriches "The Price of Loyalty," aside from the accretion of persuasive detail, is its assertion that in this administration, a time-honored notion of public service has been deeply corrupted.
It is now clear, according to our research and that of others, that some of the time-honored truths of customer service interactions fail to hold up to scientific scrutiny.
There is a need, in our culture, to share the advantages of affluence, and in cultures elsewhere -- to shift aspirations from running on a diet of donuts, to time-honored sustenance in the service of longevity, vitality, and a better life.
