In these two vital benchmarks of fitness-unfailingly sound judgment under circumstances of duress and difficulty, and freedom from conflicting interests and financial pressures-Senator Tower in my judgment falls short of these thresholds.
Debating the nomination of John Tower as Secretary of Defense.
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