| Time article on Bobby Ray (1296 words) |
 | Safire opines that ''Inman was protecting himself'' against disclosures about ''his defense-related business activities over the last 10 years'' and that his fulminations against the press were ''a smoke screen.'' But it is not at all certain that anything remains to be discovered. |
| Inman thought he heard a drum roll of growing criticism that might not have stopped confirmation but could have aborted his major project: instituting reforms in procurement that would save enough billions so the Pentagon's budgets could be stretched far enough to cover its weapons-buying plans. |
| After Inman's press conference, Goodman quipped that ''maybe he was auditioning for the starring role in 'The Prince and the Pea' '' -- an allusion to the fairy tale about a princess so sensitive that even a single pea under a pile of mattresses would keep her from sleeping. |
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