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Article: Patriot gains.
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- The Washington Monthly
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- December 1, 2002
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A FREE NATION, DEEP IN DEBT by James MacDonald Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.00
ON THE THREE MONTH COMMEMORATION of the September 11 attacks, Secretary of the Treasury Paul H. O'Neill, yielding to congressional pressure, held a press conference to announce a new way Americans could fight the war on terrorism. Besides going to the mall or investing in the stock market, they could go to the bank and buy up the government's brand new "Patriot Bonds."
But unlike the great war-bond drives of the past, this campaign involved no celebrities--not even Bono--and what little press attention it received was mostly derisive. These "Patriot Bonds," it turned out, ...