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The Congress has a limited attention span. It wearies of issues. Its primary instinct is to play it safe, and its primary motivation is to get reëlected. All this is not, of course, true of every senator or representative in the Congress, but it is true of the collective body.
He says that he welcomes “this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook,” and then he says, “Well, I am not a crook.”
This period makes one think about where public relations ends and propaganda begins.
I tell you, if a guy brought an elephant through that door and one of us said, ‘That is an elephant,’ some of the doubters would say, ‘You know, that is an inference. That could be a mouse with a glandular condition.’ ”
