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...staffers consider stultifying. After he learned that some of his reporters had joined in a pro-choice abortion rally last year, Downie rightly reminded the staff that they had forfeited the right to protest when they chose to work in journalism. Earlier this year, he sent an uncharacteristically stinging memo to his top editors charging that the Post's coverage of the abortion issue had been lopsidedly biased against the pro-life side...
...memorandum written by her private secretary Charles Powell after a seminar she held with several well-known experts on Germany. They had to explain to the Prime Minister that the countries of Eastern Europe actually wanted German investment and that this "did not necessarily equate to subjugation." The Powell memo alleged that "abiding" characteristics of the Germans, "in alphabetical order," included "aggressiveness, assertiveness, bullying, egotism, inferiority complex, sentimentality." The concept of permanent national character is generally fatuous, and in this case Powell's words make a poor fit for Kohl, the biggest German of them all. Kohl can be intimidating...
...point, an assistant to Murphy offered to reimburse one of the whistle blowers, Stanley Welli, for his legal fees in return for his silence. In a 1988 internal IRS memo that described Welli's appeal for help to the OSC, Murphy scrawled the comment MISTAKE! in the margin. Last March senior IRS officials awarded Murphy a plaque for "exemplary conduct which sets the standard for ethics and integrity for all IRS employees...
...knew nothing about Rodriguez's contra involvement until August 1986. However, both Gregg's secretary and Rodriguez have said the Bush staff knew about Rodriguez's role by May 1986, when Gregg arranged a meeting between Bush and Rodriguez. The day before the meeting, the Vice President received a memo from Gregg stating that Rodriguez wanted to talk about "resupply of the contras." Also being scrutinized is former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, an ardent proponent of the contra cause. Prosecutor Walsh will decide by fall whether or not to bring additional indictments. If he does, that could lead...
...argued, having read the briefs, I would write a memorandum myself in which I summarized how I thought the case should be decided and how the opinion should be written. I would give that to a law clerk who would then give me what we call a bench memo. If the case was assigned to me to write, that law clerk in all probability would submit in triple-space form a draft of an opinion that reflected the views I had already set forth. Before a draft opinion was circulated to the other Justices, all four of my law clerks...