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The view of the White House blowup from Ukraine
Mark Sappenfield
It just so happened that last Friday’s world-shaking confrontation in the White House occurred just as the Monitor’s Howard LaFranchi was heading into Ukraine. So, of course, Howard popped off a story on Friday (because that’s what we journalists do), and today he sets the scene from the streets of Lviv and Kiev. It’s a remarkable glimpse at a remarkable moment.
