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If you want to be an effective university president, you have to lead people into decisions, and help them see what the options are, and hope that you see it together.
William Friday Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by William A. Link, November 19, 1990; Southern Oral History Program, Interview L-0144, Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
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- Oral History Interview with William C. Friday, Interview L-0144
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- 1990
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