Sublime

Earl Gerald,

North had worked for the arms-length, extra-judicial, extra-governmental agency known as the Board for four years. He was going to die young – the bullet guaranteed it. He told them he wanted to do something useful with the time he had left. And they took him at his word.

(Here being a veritable law of bureaucratic administration, it turned out: The more compassionate and effective the high-level official, the more unpleasant and Cerberusian the secretary who barred one’s access to him.)

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Reliable

Foege had resigned after that. “The fact that they would risk the lives of children—it just bothered me so much,” he said. He later regretted his decision and wished that instead he had forced them to fire him, as it would have made more of a stink. The Reagan administration must have noticed the possibility. After Foege resigned, the White House c