Although Major Putnam was incarcerated for military reasons in Libby Prison, he was never vulgarly or culpably "in jail.
Finally, when Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire called 1966 "the year of the big goof," charging that the Administration had underestimated Viet Nam spending and was culpably .
He makes Editor Thornton, in demanding that Gardner be fired, revert to stereotyped white brutality, and he makes President Rogers seem culpably weak for giving in.