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...Messing trial makes it crystal-clear that the CRR only pass lip service to legal procedure. The Administration capitalized on the quasi-legal nature of the CRR, using an assistant professor of Law to prosecute its case...
Even then he did not play by the rules. His hair was too long. His clothes were too loud. His lip was too loose. There were wild tales of girls and booze, of riotous predawn odysseys through Manhattan saloons. There were even darker stories of gambling associations. Joe Namath, libertine and profligate. What good would come of such a rogue...
...Limp Lip...
...knows? This may well be the election year that local politicos get the lever, but presidential candidates wind up with the limp lip. It just might happen...
This is the Viet Nam book for people who do not want to read about Viet Nam-the lip-service hawks and doves who don't know Quang Tri from An Giang and don't care how the war ends as long as it is soon. Fire in the Lake is about the nature of the Vietnamese character and its encounter with the West. In one form or other, scholars, journalists and Government officials have said most of what Frances FitzGerald has to say. But she may succeed better than they simply because she delves into culture, history...