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These findings support the idea that a chronic (auto)immune reaction is operative in rheumatoid arthritis.
Intelligence report, interrogation of al Qaeda operative, Feb. 14,2004.
The NYT reports that FBI agents visited Linda Tripp's literary agent Lucianne Goldberg in New York and USAT has the detail that in 1972 Goldberg was paid $1,000 a week by a high-level Nixon operative to spy on the McGovern campaign.
In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative precedent: a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them.
They also say she's a former Democratic operative and still seething from an acrimonious breakup with Dozhier.