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Explore guided comparisons ↗“Colson went to jail.”
The return to Colson’s punishment states the argumentative job of the preceding publicity account. Its placement before the move to Roy Cohn gives a local case an explicit comparison at the close, even though the counterpart has already been introduced.
After recounting allegations against Kissinger and selected expressions of support, Lasky closes with Davidson’s conditional question: if an exception is made for Kissinger, should Nixon’s foreign-policy achievements earn similar treatment? The question supplies the comparative close without establishing that a rule was actually waived.
The final question returns an extended Kissinger account to Nixon by naming the counterpart and the proposed basis for similar treatment. Its closing position makes the connection explicit; its conditional wording leaves the claimed exception as an argument to examine.
“Not as lucky as Strauss…”
Stans enters the final paragraph as Strauss’s named counterpart, and the account closes by contrasting a plea and fine with a continuing party role. The expressly different limitations position also shows why an explicit comparative close can remain an unsupported equivalence rather than a complete explanation.
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