H.F.: Given the political cycle that you identify, how likely is it that we'll see similar crises happening in the future?
There are specialists who already exist, and if we can bring their services directly to people at the moment they need them most, we can stop a lot of crises happening".
Yet on the street "there were often three or four crises happening at one time," said Mr. Held, who contracted tuberculosis while in Bucharest (Ms. Belzberg got lice and scabies).
But then, "it must have been weird getting his mind around two such different crises happening simultaneously," said the historian, Edwin E. Moïse of Clemson University, who wrote a book about the Tonkin Gulf incident.
And, double oh, he and his staff will have to continue to fend off Republican criticism of a three day fundraising tour he leaves on tomorrow -- a cash-collection trip that GOPers believe looks unseemly amid the various domestic and international crises happening at the moment.
"The consequences are that we are not dealing with issues to prevent crises happening in families".
