[mrsmith]

This is going to come up so I'll say it now.

No one must try to use Webb's use of the word "gook" as an example of his use of racial slurs. It would backfire terribly aganst Allen.

All Nam vets used it.

...In fact I predict the media will bring it up and try to blame Allen for bringing it up.

[Howlin]

It won't work for the same reason "I didn't inhale" didn't work for most people; people who actually lived back then knew what a bogus lie that was.