Proof positive that President Clinton isn’t reading THE STANDARD came on Dec. 6, when the president addressed a White House conference on HIV and AIDS. Just weeks before (in our November 13 issue), John J. Pitney, Jr. had scolded politicians who quote Alexis de Tocqueville as saying things Tocqueville never said. Pitney singled out the one about America’s being a great country because it is a good country.
The president plowed on undeterred as he addressed the AIDS sufferers. “I ask all of you to remember this,” he began. “This is fundamentally a good country. Alexis de Tocqueville said in the the 1830s that . . .”
