those people in the world who yearn to breathe free?” He recited a roll call: “Jews and Christians enduring persecution behind the Iron Curtain. “The boat people of Southeast Asia, of Cuba, and of Haiti. “The victims of drought and famine in Africa. “The freedom fighters in Afghanistan. “And our own countrymen held in savage captivity.” This part was a deception, that all this was “not a part of” his speech. It was right there in its first draft, and worked over carefully ever since. (The first clause had originally only mentioned Jews
