Several readers have offered this complaint:

Hi Jonah, your “Party Over” column does a fantastic job of putting the Republican victory into a wider perspective. One quibble: It’s the second time in recent weeks that you’ve listed “gays in the military” as evidence of Clinton’s liberal agenda when he took office. But Clinton didn’t seek out that issue, it was a brilliant (though I believe cynical) move by Republicans in Congress that brought the issue to the fore, a move that effectively dashed his brief honeymoon. There’s no way Clinton, who never took a major public stand for gay rights, would have sought out that fight, a clear loser at the time. All the best, Andrew.

Me:This isn’t exactly how I remember it, but I’ll go look it up.

Update Woops. I didn’t mean to include the emailer’s name. But since it’s there, I should clairfy that it’s not from that Andrew.