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The Principal Remaining Argument for an Extended Impeachment Trial

It might make sense to end it now, except That wouldn't show the managers respect. So even if their case now seems inert,

Calvin Trillin

February 4, 1999

It might make sense to end it now, except That wouldn’t show the managers respect. So even if their case now seems inert, Dismiss it and their feelings could be hurt. However lunatic this all may seem, We must protect the House’s self-esteem.

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


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