On reading lips. (John Tower on Strategic Defense Initiative)

From: National Review | Date: February 24, 1989 | Copyright information

THE WORDS Were Scarcely out of John Tower's mouth at his confirmation hearing before the New York Times started gloating and Washington's strategic salons threw themselves into a quick retain of the Hallelujah Chorus. The secretary of defense-designate was alleged to have revealed, in effect, that the emperor's umbrella was a fiction: that the Strategic Defense Initiative could not work, and therefore no further thought need be given to deploying a robust defense against ballisti...

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