Is There Life after Tower?

It IS lucky for the American people that the crisis in the District of Columbia coincided with a period of change and turmoil in the USSR. Even so, I find much cause for unease and displeasure.

The gloating tone of so many congressmen and media commentators over the discomfiture of the President and his closest advisors was distasteful. At least my old opponent Mr. Ben Bradlee was honest enough to come clean when he said (if he was correctly quoted): “I haven’t enjoyed myself so much since Watergate.” What joyous irresponsibility! Unelected but powerful, the press, radio, and television have played, yet again, a role in which a 90 per cent share is purely destructive (and I am probably being kind).

It IS lucky for the American people that the crisis in the District of Columbia coincided with a period of change and turmoil in the USSR. Even so, I find much cause for unease and displeasure.

The gloating tone of so many congressmen and media commentators over the discomfiture of the President and his closest advisors was distasteful. At least my old opponent Mr. Ben Bradlee was honest enough to come clean when he said (if he was correctly quoted): “I haven’t enjoyed myself so much since Watergate.” What joyous irresponsibility! Unelected but powerful, the press, radio, and television have played, yet again, a role in which a 90 per cent share is purely destructive (and I am probably being kind).