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South Bend Tribune (article not known to current publication of that name)

May 6 1979

Ben Barret

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“Does a politician need to be his brother’s keeper? And if he does, is it really for the good of the brother? […] The events which author Russell Greenan brings into this brothers’ tale are reminders of real occurrences in our nation’s past which do not cease to be frightening. A passage such as the following pronouncement by Richard can still send shivers up the spine:

“Ah, Edward—if only Nigel had been sane… who knows? We might even have set up a dynasty. There have been presidents of this great country of ours who rose to power under far less favorable circumstances.”