"And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o 'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action." —Hamlet
These are the dangerous days for Jimmy Carter. He is by himself. Not even Rosalynn knew all about the Tehran rescue mission. Nor can she or anyone else shape beyond a point what happens inside the President.
If, as Shakespeare's Hamlet warns, Carter's enlarged conscience makes a coward of him, then by almost every measure in this sad...
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