“I repeat, Mr. Chairman,” Bob Leffingwell said in the same measured tones, “an evil, inexcusable, underhanded, vicious, shabby attempt to smear me, destroy my personal character, and destroy my usefulness to the President and to my country, so that I could not be confirmed for Secretary of State. I expected this sort of thing from the senior Senator from South Carolina, whose ability to damage good citizens and injure his own country has increased in direct geometric ratio to his lengthening years in this body, but I did not expect it of some other members of this subcommittee. I did not
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