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Article: Elites serve self above honor, law and duty.(denial of personal responsibility in the Clinton White House)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- June 29, 1998
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In his notable "Treason and Traitors" essay in Society magazine nearly a decade ago, Professor Robert King of the University of Texas wrote about the backgrounds of famous British spies, top government officials who had betrayed their own nation by passing major secrets to the Soviets. "They came from the middle to at most the upper-middle class" wrote King. "Part of the British genius for ruling their empire was to take boys from such families, give them a good education, put them through Oxford or Cambridge, and voila! A public servant, fit to rule the empire, a member not necessarily of the upper class but of the ruling class in some managerial sense of the word."
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