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with Democrats and Republicans,”
said Hartnett.
Anyone who’s retired from public
service after so many years is bound to
have regrets about things not accom-
plished, and Hartnett is no different.
“I was offered the assistant sec-
retary of the Army. I turned it down
and I regret that,” recalled Hartnett.
“And then I was offered the chairman-
ship of the Federal Maritime Com-
mission, and I turned that down.
I don’t regret that as much as I do
the assistant secretary of the Army. I
think I would have loved doing that.
The other thing I regret after com-
ing home is when Harvard called me
and wanted me to come to the John F. Kennedy School of
Government and be a lecturer for one semester. It didn’t
pay much, and I was just getting set up in business again
so I turned that down.”
While there may be a few regrets from his time in
Bonnie and Tommy Hartnett greet President George Herbert Walker Bush.
Photo provided by Tommy Hartnett.
Washington, Hartnett has no regrets about where he’s
ended up: “I think I’d stay on the island if I could go
anywhere. I’d probably live on the front beach with a view
of the ocean, but if I could make a choice of anywhere I
could live, it would probably still be here.“
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