Reason Morning Links: Salad Days of the Condor

- Dawn Johnson withdraws her bid to run the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.

- A plane crash kills Poland's president and other national leaders.

- Mitt Romney edges out Ron Paul by one vote at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference straw poll.

- New evidence emerges concerning Henry Kissinger's connection to the Operation Condor killings.

- The most pathetic attempt you'll see today to tie the Tea Parties to racism.