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...documents and testimony buried in the report's 885-page appendix are potentially more embarrassing. They directly contradict an internal FBI memo of December 1980, in which Webster revealed that he had assured Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese that the bureau's 60 field offices had run a check on Donovan and turned up no incriminating evidence. In a letter to the Labor Committee dated Sept. 17, 1982, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Robert McConnell said that the FBI had "located no information to suggest that such a check was made in any field office." In his own testimony before...
...squashed. Moving valuable books to safer storage space is a nice idea, but just as expensive as the weeding-out option, and the "safer storage space" would probably prove less accessible than normal warehouse-style book storage. And kicking an entire section of the Widener collection off campus would contradict the library's purpose as a comprehensive facility. Besides, it would put the library in the impossible position of deciding which sections are least "important...
...innuendo, even for a columnist." For example, on very scant evidence, Safire has unfairly suggested that Senator John Glenn is anti-Israel. He couples such impetuousness with a merry disregard for consistency. He quotes with self-satisfaction a line from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself...
Which is, of course, the central objection to consistency, beyond its comedy, dullness or danger. The consistent mind mocks and distorts life itself, blasphemes and perverts everything in a uni verse that insists on motion. "Myself I may contradict," Montaigne conceded. "The truth...
...help you [politically].' You might as well forget it." Reagan insists that he has instructed his advisers never to consider the vote-getting potential of a decision, and his aides unanimously confirm it. That testimony sounds too self-serving to be swallowed whole, and there have been actions that contradict it, notably Reagan's lifting of the embargo on U.S. grain sales to the Soviets. But it comes from too many sources to be discounted. At the very least, that stand is a refreshing change from having every issue judged by the Nixon Administration's immortal criterion: How will...