Time Out for the Defense

Indicted in New York, Donovan takes a leave from the Cabinet

For a member of the President's Cabinet, the situation could hardly have been more humiliating. Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan walked into a forbidding concrete courthouse in New York City last week to be booked, fingerprinted and photographed like a common criminal. He looked startled when the policeman taking his mug shot remarked dryly, "I suppose I'll see you again." The cameraman was joking, other officers explained. "I don't think he was," replied the grim-faced Secretary. After going through more than two hours...

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