It is completely, verifiably true.

She did not miss a day.

And it ran in the piece as the last line of the ninth paragraph, attributed to “a former close aide,” and it functioned in that piece not as a defense of her but as the hinge of the argument, because the paragraph before it described a woman who had been carried into a hotel room on a luggage cart, and the paragraph after it quoted a governance professor saying that the question was never whether a chief executive was working but whether the board knew what it was buying.

I have never blamed Nora Halberstam for that.