Assistant Attorney General William Weld has conceded error but declines to apologize.
It was also a summons to other historians to be willing to concede error and revisit the past.
He is much quicker to concede error when the subject turns to Presidential politics.
It would be a welcome change to have a President "willing to concede error," one who is able to learn and grow.
Officials of the council said yesterday that they were not conceding error; rather, they said, they had been misunderstood.
In Congressional testimony on October 23, 2008, Greenspan finally conceded error on regulation.
That's what was predicted in this Office Pool last year, and I am not yet prepared to concede error.
It is not in Mr. Bush's nature to concede specific error.
Were this his first misjudgment, Mr. Chubais might be forgiven if he conceded error and returned the book fee.
The idea, it seemed, was to concede American fallibility, if not exactly error.