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...late September, the Portland Oregonian carried a syndicated column by Chicago Daily News Writer Mike Royko lambasting the average automobile salesman as a "sneaky liar" and lamenting the fact that "the cornerstone of our economy is based on double-talking, deceitful confidence men." Warming to his subject, Royko added: "No other major industry takes it for granted that we know the salesmen are lying and that they know we know they are lying. Even an alderman tries to keep up an honest front...
...neighbors leaped to the guerrillas' defense last week with words-but little else-that is what they seemed to be doing. Iraq expelled the Jordanian ambassador and demanded Jordan's ouster from the Arab League. Egypt's Anwar Sadat in effect called Hussein a liar, while a spokesman in Cairo said that the events were "a black mark on the forehead of the Jordanian government." No government, however, did anything tangible to help the guerrillas...
Last week it was Thieu's turn. In a Saigon press conference, he called Big Minh "a coward and a liar" and blamed him for the murders, quoting him as saying at the time of the coup that "the easiest way is to assassinate Diem...
...revelations of the Pentagon papers angered war critics on Capitol Hill, who claimed vindication for their long-held feeling that Congress had been misled by the Executive Branch. "These documents," fumed Idaho Democrat Frank Church, "secure Johnson's position as a liar." Declared Maryland Republican Charles Mathias: "I am outraged?but I'm worn down with outrage." Yet the Congress made no immediate move to grasp control of the war from the Nixon Administration...
...Richard Nixon-but over the summer, like hypnopaedia, the message began to get through. Maybe he's right, maybe this time he's not lying (it is hard, after all, for people raised on George Washington to realize that the President of the United States is an unprincipled remorseless liar). Maybe if I just sit tight...