For a few weeks now in the pages of the New York Times (and behind the “TimesSelect” firewall online), Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson has been making the Saturday op-ed space interesting for the first time since John Tierney’s departure. Today he recalls “A Meeting With Gerald Ford,” and opens by saying that he was “asked by Robert Goldman, President Ford’s in-house intellectual, to participate in a discussion on ethnicity at the White House, one of a series put on for the edification of the president.” I think Patterson’s memory betrays him. That “Robert Goldman” must surely be Robert A. Goldwin, who went on after leaving the Ford White House to a distinguished career at the American Enterprise Institute, where among other things he edited the best series of volumes collecting various essays on the Constitution, in celebration of the 1987 bicentennial. Goldwin is also the author of the best book yet published on the origins of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, From Parchment to Power.