Volume 43, Number 2 · February 1, 1996
The Case of the Kissing Senator
By Julia Reed
Documents Related to the Investigation of Senator Robert Packwood Senate Select Committee on Ethics
US Senate 104th Congress, first session
US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1995, Volumes 1–10
The Packwood Report
by the Senate Ethics Counsel on Senator Robert Packwood, Introduction by Helen Dewar
Times Books, 325 pp., $10.00 (paper)
Strom Thurmond, who will turn one hundred in the Senate if he wins his eighth term next year and lives through it, gives a speech designed, Ronald Reagan—style, to poke fun at fears about his age and mental faculties. 'If I'm ever struck insane,' he says, 'I hope it will be in Washington because the people there won't know the difference.' Having completed the ten-volume, ten-thousand-plus-page Documents Related to the Investigation of Senator Robert Packwood, I have to say that the distinguished senator from South Carolina has a point.
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