Shortly before Willkie died he told a friend that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between "here lies a president" or "here lies one who contributed to saving freedom," he would prefer the latter.
"If I could write my own epitaph and if I had to choose between saying, 'Here lies an unimportant president' or 'Here lies one who contributed to saving freedom at a moment of great peril,' " he told a friend, "I would prefer the latter".
His vituperative style and the criticism he received from his many opponents, both lay and clerical, contributed to the formation of larger and larger groups holding opinions on important matters of the day.
More than half (51%) stated that being in one position while sitting or lying in bed contributed to discomfort.
For example, he said, laws in Europe that make it more difficult than in the United States for employers to lay off workers had contributed to the fact that Europe has lower levels of high-tech capital investment than in the United States.
We would like to acknowledge all the nurses, adherence counsellors and lay health workers who contributed to this study.
A nonstop litany of lies and innuendo has contributed to the picture far too many have of this dedicated public servant.
Firms have little incentive to train the young temps whom they will soon lay off, and that has contributed to Spain's dismal record of productivity growth.The trouble engulfing Greece ought to startle Spain's policymakers out of a dangerous complacency.
Some of Herr's best and most quotable passages read like hallucinations, and some simply are just that: descriptions of being stoned on the front line, like a character in Apocalypse Now, a film classic whose script Herr also contributed to: Just lying there tracking the rotations of the ceiling fan, reaching for the fat roach that sat on my Zippo in a yellow disc of grass tar.
The Premier League club, whose Selhurst Park ground lies in the London borough, have contributed to a fund for the families of those involved.
