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Amid the chaos, Baker quietly began rebuilding egos and bridges. He first went to Stevens and persuaded him to apologize to Nunn. The three of them then joined to calm Levin down. Baker was eventually able to forge a consensus: a compromise resolution to keep programs funded for four months...
That drastic action followed the destruction of two bridges near the Honduran border, which the Sandinistas blamed on U.S.-backed "counterrevolutionaries." The State Department officially answered that charge with a perfunctory "No comment." Privately, a senior State Department official said that he could not rule out the possibility that some...
During the Carter Administration, there was high-level interest in organizing pro-Somoza exiles in Florida and elsewhere into a counterforce that would "keep the Sandinistas off guard and on the defensive," as one of TIME'S sources puts it. That idea was abandoned fairly early during the Reagan...
There is no excuse for the extralegal methods that went under the name of Watergate. A President cannot justify his own misdeeds by the excesses of his opponents. It is his obligation to set moral standards, to build bridges to his opponents. Nixon did not rise to this act of...
Yet perhaps the greatest charm of the book is its subtle disingenuousness. It bridges two worlds, because no matter how great its sympathy for the era it describes, it was written today, and its sensibilities are as wise as our own. A scene in which a cadet shows off his...