Notes & Asides

Dear Mr. Buckley:

Last week I was shaving and listening to the news over Radio Station WINS (“Give us 22 minutes and we’ll give you the world”). Protagonists in the political race for different offices were being given 15-second biographies, and Mr. Ramsey Clark’s name came up and the newscaster wound up the brief career by saying “. . . and during the late Eastern war Mr. Clark visited our American soldiers in Vietnam. . .” and that was when I nicked my ear.