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A thought for the New Year. Since World War II, only two Presidents have ever been defeated in a primary—Truman in New York in 1952; Johnson in Wisconsin in 1968. Neither was renominated.

Just when Senator Church was getting a reputation for spilling all the beans, he and the whole Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations have shown admirable discretion in the delicate matter of John Kennedy’s—and Sam Giancana’s—“close friend.” True, one might think it in the national interest to publish the nature of the connection, such as it was, between the President and the mobster; yet it was only when the lady herself spoke up that one could appreciate the senators’ tact, a virtue whose nature is to be all but invisible until others call attention to it. Which reminds us that we didn’t have all this leaking and scandal when the Democrats were supervising the FBI and the CIA. Why not put Church himself in charge of the CIA? Its secrets will be safe with him.

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A thought for the New Year. Since World War II, only two Presidents have ever been defeated in a primary—Truman in New York in 1952; Johnson in Wisconsin in 1968. Neither was renominated.

Just when Senator Church was getting a reputation for spilling all the beans, he and the whole Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Operations have shown admirable discretion in the delicate matter of John Kennedy’s—and Sam Giancana’s—“close friend.” True, one might think it in the national interest to publish the nature of the connection, such as it was, between the President and the mobster; yet it was only when the lady herself spoke up that one could appreciate the senators’ tact, a virtue whose nature is to be all but invisible until others call attention to it. Which reminds us that we didn’t have all this leaking and scandal when the Democrats were supervising the FBI and the CIA. Why not put Church himself in charge of the CIA? Its secrets will be safe with him.