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In an interview with TIME a few hours after resigning, Lefever said he quit because "my wife and I were getting fed up with the constant reiteration of false allegations-that I am for sale, or for rent, that I lacked compassion, that I did not care about the torture...
From the beginning Lefever was clearly the wrong choice for the job. A self-professed "do-gooder" who has worked for various liberal and humanitarian causes over the years, he became a convert to conservatism and founded his own rightist think tank, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in 1976...
The White House might have quietly dropped the battle, as it did with Warren Richardson, a onetime lobbyist for the stridently anti-Zionist Liberty Lobby, who had been nominated as an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. Reagan also might have yielded to compromise after a quick, overwhelming defeat...
When the hearings began on Lefever's nomination, one Senator said that there were only three votes against him.
After Lefever finished defending himself there were 13. Some Senators had doubts about his ethics, others about his politics, others about his tact and judgment.