Why We Won't See The Likes Of Eric Holder Again
Posted on AllSides September 28th, 2014
From The Left
When President Woodrow Wilson was casting about for an attorney general in 1919, his private secretary Joseph Tumulty wrote that the office "had great power politically ... we should not trust it to anyone who is not heart and soul with us."
Eric Holder's great qualification for the job he has just resigned was that he was with the president he served — heart and soul.
His complicated role in Barack Obama's administration was inextricably bound to race — he was the first African-American U.S. attorney general, appointed by the...
