



Six endorsements go out in the last week of the chapter, a report is sent to a Georgia official with one line of his on top, and a general is accused in print of making calls to China. Then, on the seventeenth of September, a congressman from Ohio who voted to impeach him announces he will not run again, and the office publishes five words about it: 1 down, 9 to go! That is what the machine turned out to be for. He cannot sign a law, move a soldier or govern a county. He can end a career with one sheet of paper, and by the end of September the line waiting along the carpet is longer than it was in July.
Readers' Corner
Letters from the readership on Week 327. Pick a pen name — no account needed.
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