Twenty-four more feverish hours of War ticked by. Then, the Administration accused the Governor of Louisiana of conducting unethical medical experiments on illegal aliens. This news arrived in the very midst of the martial fife-playing and drumbeating. It was a shocking distraction. But it was serious—bad, very bad, unbelievably bad. The surgeon general and the cabinet head of Health Services were wheeled out in public, burdened with grim looks, medical evidence, and terrifying cranial flip charts.