NPR’s Nina Totenberg: “And let us say one other thing. For years, we have cut our taxes, cut our taxes and let the infrastructure throughout the country go, and this is just the first of a number of other crumbling things that are going to happen to us.”
Charles Krauthammer: “You must be kidding here.”
Moderator Gordon Peterson: “She’s not kidding.”
Totenberg: “I’m not kidding.”
— Exchange on…
“There have been some that have suggested that race has been a factor because so many of the people in New Orleans who have been suffering, as you well know, are African-American....Do you believe, if it was, in fact, a slow response, as many now believe it was, was it in part the result of racism?...There are some critics who are saying, and I don’t know if you’re among those, but people have…
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The February 18, 1998 edition of ABC's World News Tonight featured a glowing profile of Bill Clinton's White House counsel Bruce Lindsey in which reporter John Cochran admired how he had successfully killed stories that “might erupt about Clinton and flight attendants” by silencing one and giving another a job.