Berger files
Of the many letters received from readers surrounding Samuel R. Berger lining his trappings with classified documents, none reads as well as Phil Christenson's.
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"In an election season that has become far too acrimonious, Sandy Berger has injected a delightful note of humor. He should be pardoned just for making us laugh again," Mr. Christenson notes.
"Caught stashing top-secret, code-word documents in various parts of his clothing, Berger gets help from his old boss when Bill Clinton comes to his defense with a claim, 'Oh, that's just Sandy's way,' and says that he's just disorganized.
"You can just imagine what it was like in the Clinton White House when they were having an all-night pizza party to discuss foreign affairs. Clinton asks National Security Adviser Berger for the presidential decision memo on North Korea, and [the] rumpled Berger stands up, checks his armpits for the memo, then reaches into his trousers and ... pulls out the NAFTA policy paper, the memo on NATO expansion, plans to deal with Burma human rights, but no Korean paper.
"Finally someone says, 'Sandy, have you checked in back?' Sandy fumbles around, reaches down the back of his trousers ... and lo and behold out comes the Clinton policy on North Korea. I knew this is where they got their foreign policies." |
