Sooner or later

I will be eager to read Seymour Hersh's new book. In the meantime, here's an excerpt from an article reveiwing the book that I can't help but find reminding me of the missing Melania Trump...

Almost every person in Hersh’s memoir is a man—a sign of the time and the industry. But there’s an interesting moment that Hersh did not have to include. In 1974, he writes, Hersh heard that Nixon’s wife Pat was in hospital after being punched by her husband. It was not an isolated occasion. He did not report on the story, he told Nieman Foundation fellows in 1998, because it represented “a merging of private life and public life.” Nixon didn’t make policy decisions because of his bad marriage, went the argument. Hersh was “taken aback” by the response from women fellows, who pointed out that he had heard of a crime and not reported it. “All I could say,” Hersh writes, “is that at the time I did not—in my ignorance—view the incident as a crime.”

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“I should have reported what I knew at the time or, if my doing so would have compromised a source, have made sure that someone else did.”

  New Republic

Nobody else considered it a crime in those days, either.

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