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As Denny Hastert Stumbles Through an Array of Denials That He Knew About Mark Foley’s Behavior and Did Nothing About It

What makes you think he knows anything?

Calvin Trillin

October 18, 2006

Though voters think that Hastert knew, The fact that he’s been much in view May be his best protection yet: He seems the sort who could forget.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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