Cohen argued: "I have never heard of a press officer going straight and coming clean by explaining how his government department or corporation manipulated public opinion".
Early on, we learn that Frank is a convicted murderer, but, as he argues, "I've never intentionally hurt anyone in my life," a claim borne out by a series of lumbering flashbacks.
"I ran for president promising transparency, and I meant what I said," he declared, adding, "But I have never argued — and I never will — that our most sensitive national security matters are an open book".
They rarely argued, but I never spotted much intimacy between them, and was curious about what they said from the solitude of their bed, which was the size of a small studio apartment and did not portend much physical contact.
And yet, as I stood on the narrow little pavement, a few hundred metres from the house where I learned to read, to speak to boys, to cook and how to never argue, I looked up and saw a seagull, soaring on the wind just a few metres above the chimney pots and drainpipes.
Can I say something, and then argue that I never said it when you have a tape?
That's because, he argues, it never actually existed.
Widmer says the idea that "a vast left-wing conspiracy controls America's airwaves and newsprint" has been "recently argued in Bernard Goldberg's 'Bias.' " Not only have I never argued such a point, but on Page 4 of my introduction, I state the exact opposite.
"She was so sure, I never argued with her".
I never argued that Fury should not be on the shortlist but many others did.
