Volume 34, Number 13 · August 13, 1987
A Hero's Mission
By Murray Kempton
The composition of the Congress makes it peculiarly ill-equipped to engage a witness like Oliver North, who incarnates the heroic temperament that all but debars a lasting legislative career. A congressman encounters a hero on the benches around him too seldom to acquire the familiarity he needs to deal with a specimen of the breed when he meets one.
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