Several hours before sunrise on Friday, November 5, 1999, Mark Johnson entered Federal Building 3 in Suitland, Maryland, and went inside the ground-floor offices of the U.S. Census Monitoring Board. The previous evening, a subordinate had called Johnson, one of the board’s two executive directors, with the news that five badge-bearing federal agents had shown up at the office just before closing time and
In his 1975 book, The Accountability of Power, Walter Mondale described why he had abandoned his campaign for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination in midstream. “I simply did not have the overwhelming desire necessary to do what had to be done to get elected,” he wrote. By 1981 Mondale had put that hesitation aside. He was ready to do