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Didn't the Furmark episode contradict Meese's assertion that Casey had been ignorant of the fund diversion? Not really, Casey later told newsmen. Furmark's story gave him only a "whiff" that money had been diverted and caused him to start "asking some questions." But he had not been sure of the diversion to the contras, he insisted, until Meese made his announcement...
Instead of forcing their way through the blockade at the black-tie 350th dinner this September, police simply made sure the protesters and alumni kept their distance. They knew that any use of force would have created a media spectacle for the hordes of newsmen in town for the 350th hoopla...
Both men, like Kalb, came from news backgrounds. Could it be that former newsmen are marginally more, well, honorable than the rabble of lawyers, lobbyists, military men, bureaucrats, businessmen, and politicians who hold most of the high appointive jobs in any administration...
Somehow this works. Newsmen who are so cynical about everyone else's profession can be wonderfully naive about their own. They need to believe that there is such a thing as truth, and that they are the boys who search it out, and that, once printed, it can set men free...
Even former newsmen tend to hold onto these reassuring beliefs, as they might to an old teddy bear. It is this relunctance to put aside childish things that causes the poor fellows now and then to walk the plank for no good reason, instead of lying...