IF NECESSARY, RECAPITULATE

   In writing this chapter we wonder if it weren't put in just to make twenty-four steps i the investigation procedure instead of twenty-three.

   Yet you will come to an investigation, as we have in the past, when you wished were were one hundred and twenty-four steps, so you could explore more fully all the circumstances and tighten your defense for the critical investigation you must handle.

   The apocryphal story is told of Winston Churchill in his famous "We will fight them from the beaches" speech. He is supposed to have turned to a friend and said, and if that doesn't stop the Nazis we will hit them over the bloody heads with blooming beer bottles."

   You, too, will be driven to desperation, when all conventional arguments are useless, to resort to an unconventional defense as described above.

   As long as there is some matter to explore that may benefit your position, keep probing and returning to it.

   Unless you choose to protest the conduct of the hearing when your client is asked if he has received a fair hearing (as in the next step), this should be the proper me for you to sum up, clarifying your position for the reviewing officers.