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Re: Last Words on Impeachment

By Midge Decter
Posted Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999, at 1:14 PM ET

There may be no constitutional requirement for legislators to vote their own conscience, but for heaven's sake, they might at least have behaved with a modicum of dignity, no matter how they voted in the end.

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Re: Last Words on Impeachment

By Midge Decter
Posted Thursday, Feb. 11, 1999, at 1:14 PM ET
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Midge Decter is an essayist and social critic who publishes in a variety of magazines and appears most frequently in Commentary. Norman Podhoretz is editor at large of Commentary magazine and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His latest book, Ex-Friends, was published this month.
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