Had Waldheim carried out the same banalities in the service of a Communist nation, he would be universally hailed as the greatest SecGen in UN history. No wonder he was perplexed, at the end.
Someday, when the true history of abortion is written, there will be thousands of similar stories: “..he only built it..”; “he only concurred with the majority on the right of a woman to...”; “..he failed to ask the judge’s position on..”