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“bolt upright in bed, clutching at his nightshirt with both hands. To Hertz, the singer was in many ways a figure as pitiable as any he had ever portrayed on stage. The earthquake seemed to have visibly shrunk Caruso, “as if the cataclysmic terror had singled him out to obliterate his glory of the previous night; as if Providence had evil designs on him personally.”
― Gordon Thomas, The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster

“This was exactly the kind of tip a credible FBI investigation would pursue. It had been given a road map that led directly to Stier. It simply chose not to follow the trail.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“necessarily would be true of this particular nominee.”23 Even from a retired justice, it was an amazing public rebuke.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover

“What were the rules the agents were following? With the list of people the FBI was interviewing seemingly limited to four—Mark Judge, P. J. Smyth, Leland Keyser, and Deborah Ramirez—this looked less like a searching inquiry than a con job. Coons called Flake, asking if he had agreed that only four witnesses would be interviewed. No, Flake said: it would be done “by the book”—that phrase again.”
― Ruth Marcus, Supreme Ambition: Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative Takeover