Faster Than a Speeding Lapham

From the 9/14/2005 issue of Newsweek, with Richard Wolffe and Susannah Meadows reporting:

John Kerry wanted to hit back. It had been a miserable August as the nation took incoming fire from sleeper al Qaeda cells, just months after his swearing-in. But no, chief of staff Mary Beth Cahill and most of the cabinet argued, the current round of bombings and lone hijacking would blow over. Finally, Kerry had had enough. For three or four days, as he toured across the country, Kerry privately ripped into Cahill, furious that the attacks on the nation