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Goldwater later recanted this view, and even the most conservative Southern politicians now laud the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which removed barriers that legally prevented blacks from living and working where they wished.
I speak feelingly, for I was caught once in this particular trap, as shown by the article on hawser in my `Etymological Dictionary,' for which I was promptly rebuked by Mr. Wedgwood in 1882 (twenty-seven years ago); and that is why I so fully recanted my heresy in the `Supplement';.
But in the same article Isikoff reported that Steele had later recanted and said that Willey "had asked her to 'lie' about what had happened in order to give credibility to the allegation that she had been harassed."
Isikoff also reported, in the same August story, that Steele then recanted, and told him (Version #2) that Willey had only "told her about the incident weeks after it happened, saying only that the president had made a pass at her."
Although there have been suggestions of contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda regarding chemical weapons and explosives training, the most detailed information alleging such ties came from an al Qaeda operative who recanted much of his original information.