The Cost Of Ignoring Jackie
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If Espy had abided by the first-black rules, meeting the standards for Cabinet officers would have been easy. But in this day and age, that would have been asking a lot. Instead, he tried to be like the other Mike: so heroic at his work that even an overzealous prosecutor like Smaltz would forgive him a few nitpicking ethical lapses. As Espy ruefully admitted last week, that was a miscalculation. He said, "I should have tried to be more like Jackie." That's a good motto for all public officials, even if they're not black.
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