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...story, replacements under consideration reportedly include Michael Chertoff, the current secretary of Homeland Security; Frances Frago Townsend, a top advisor to Bush at the National Security Council; Larry Thompson, a former deputy attorney general; and former Solicitor General Ted Olson. Other speculation has included federal appeals judge Laurence Silberman, and George Terwilliger, a former senior Department of Justice official now in private law practice. The spokesperson dismissed the speculation as a "typical Washington parlor game... It's false." At the White House on Tuesday evening, Bush repeated his support of Gonzales: "He's got support with...
...power by American organizations. We were there, but we could not have much influence. We were an exile organization. NOW THAT SOME OF THE WEAPONS-OF-MASS-DESTRUCTION [WMD] SOURCES YOU INTRODUCED TO THE AMERICANS HAVE BEEN DISCREDITED, DO YOU REGRET NOT CHECKING OUT THEIR STORIES MORE? The Robb-Silberman report said we had minimum impact on WMD intelligence as it related to the U.S. decision to go to war. It is an urban myth that we had ill-principled sources. It is our job to check to see that these people are who they say they...
...more careful to expunge his or her Jewishness than Jews who were in the public eye," declares Charles E. Silberman in this examination of the past, present and potential futures of American Jews--one of the most thorough journalistic surveys of American Jewish life ever published. Actors who wound up in Hollywood got camouflage names whether they wanted them or not. While pioneer moviemakers like Harry Cohn, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer and Adolph Zukor retained Jewish-sounding names, they were "determined to avoid any hint of Jewishness in the films they created." Some notables avoided this identification so assiduously...
Motives for dissimulation took on many shadings, but the essential intent was to minimize friction during passage through an often abrasive society. To be nice, by some gentile measure, was more than a question of etiquette. It was a "sacred canon," Silberman says. Service to that canon became, in the words of Sociologist John Murray Cuddihy, "the ordeal of civility." Of all the problems faced by Jews since their earliest days in America--and Silberman covers most of them--the endless struggle over identity seems most fraught with anguish. Early arrivals in the new country found a society more tolerant...
...Silberman argues that the anti-Semitism in the U.S. is merely residual. He examines the past and present opportunities in business, law, academe, journalism, politics and art. Upshot: today's American Jew is about 2½ times as likely to wind up in Who's Who as the population at large...