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July 22, 2006
American precedents
Philip Kerridge quoted from President Lyndon Johnson. Here's another quote to give heart to those who are struggling to save their library services
‘We must begin with the simple but basic observation that democracies do not survive unless officials do what they are supposed to do and citizens maintain vigilance to see that they do.’
This sentence is the opening of the report of the Special Prosecutor into the Watergate affair, in August 1974
Posted by Tim Coates at July 22, 2006 4:16 PM