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I remember Ernest LeFever as a good and decent man and an engaged Christian, but I haven’t seen him in 40 years and don’t recall the conversation he recounts from that period in his latest piece. However, I didn’t then or now think In the Name of America a strident book, and I probably didn’t review it because I was wrestling with the issues it raised and hadn’t resolved them in my own mind. One reason I opposed the invasion of Iraq all these years later is because, as I have said publicly, I saw the Bush administration making many of the same mistakes we had made in the Johnson Administration. There are probably many differences between Ernie and me these days, but one would seem to be that he hasn’t changed his mind over 40 years, and I have.
