Volume 28, Number 15 · October 8, 1981
The Buck Stops Here
By Marshall Frady
Governing America: An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinet
by Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Simon and Schuster, 474 pp., $16.95
Joseph Califano ends his account of his travails as Jimmy Carter's secretary of health, education, and welfare with the warning, 'What we should fear above all is the judgment of God and history if the most affluent people on earth…choose not to govern justly, distribute our riches fairly and help the most vulnerable among us—or worse, choose not even to try.'
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