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Veritas Vincit
In Thomas Frank’s recent essay [“The Wrecking Crew,” August], I am quoted as saying, “We can now go to students at Harvard and say, ‘There is now a secure retirement plan for Republican operatives.’” There is only one problem with this quote: Idid not say it. It is instead a quote from Grover Norquist that appeared in One Party Country, by Pete Wallsten and Tom Hamburger. It was erroneously cited as coming from me in a review of the book by Mark Schmitt that appeared in the October 2006 issue of _Washington Monthly. _If Frank had used the original source material rather than the review, he might have properly attributed the quote.
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