On the day that E Howard Hunt died, I happened to hear Sweet Home Alabama come up in random shuffle on my iPod. Pure coincidence? Sure. But it makes you think. The institutional memory of an administration actually brought down by its own arrogance and corruption is passing from our lives, one conspirator at a time. And it has been replaced by the appalling rise of an administration that won’t fall no matter how manifest and clear its amoral malignancy. How soon we forget.

In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth