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Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his wife: "This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me."
Nonetheless, they are in great peril, and are hiding from that peril.
So does the "Save NPR" letter, which claims that public broadcasting is in peril.
A confidential Democratic National Committee fund-raising memo warned of the peril: "Reporting a contribution from someone in the name of someone else is a very serious offense--often resulting in criminal liability."
But then, although I formerly owned a house (in Essex, Connecticut) where the film, Let's Scare Jessica to Death was made, I have survived that peril.