"I can right offhand count four "out" Republicans (including myself) and I don't know how many closeted Republicans when Ted, who was my student and the editor on the Harvard Law Review who helped me with my Supreme Court foreword, was a student here".
Chatting with former MLB Fay Vincent in such detail about the 1991 committee's decision to tighten the definition of a no-hitter was so compelling, and then to have him agree to write my book's foreword was such an honor.
In a coruscating foreword to My Life Is My Sundance, Ramsey Clark - Attorney General under President Lyndon Johnson - declares, "Leonard Peltier has committed no crime whatsoever", and describes portions of the legal processes that condemned Peltier, now a Clark client, as "a shameful, criminal act".
My editors are incredulous that I've gotten this far in my quest for a foreword from the Dalai Lama.
Mr. Bogle (who wrote the foreword to my new book, "Keynes's Way to Wealth") called attention to the fact that the fund expense ratio understates total costs investors pay.
As Mrs. Greenfield wrote in her 1990 autobiography, "Be My Baby" (with a foreword by Cher, another comeback queen who knows from Svengalis), the brilliant Mr. Spector adored her voice and what she calls her "Spanish Harlem half-breedishness".
For example, when with the brashness of youth I wrote to ask him if he would write the foreword to my first collection of poems in the 1970s - I hardly knew the man - he agreed at once.
In his foreword to my own book, Executive Measures, Terrorism and National Security (2007), Lord Justice Sedley referred to the human tendency to believe that things are worse now than they have ever been: "The eponymous heroine of the South African film Yesterday was given her name because, as her father said, yesterday is always better than today".
