Posted 12:17 PM by Gene

We wonder in reading this if we weren't being unfair to Warren Christopher. Let us assume Christopher was the towering pillar of virtue Rich says he was. That still does not negate that the only way we ever saw him was through television and his highly peculiar manner. We think of this line by the Wall Street biggie Paul Singer: "We try to at all times at least assume that the world is not being properly run." If, as Henry Adams once said of Washington, "Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, and such things were swarming in every street", so too the aides, assistants and hangers-on who will flower over their virtues, real or imagined. We still cannot quite rid ourselves of the skunk smell from when that blithering hack Farhi called St. Jack of Valenti one for the ages. We cannot trust such eulogies because we must assume the world is not being properly run, and after those not properly running it have died they too will get such eulogies. And we must especially think the world is not being properly run from Foggy Bottom. We will leave Warren Christopher at peace, and say he deserved the encomium; but we hope JPOD will be careful the next time he lavishes posthumous praise on anybody.