David Brooks is lying

B.S.

DAVID BROOKS: A sense of national unity. It was bitter. I think until this Iraq War, I think the contra fight about the Nicaraguan contras was as bitter a little Washington fight that I've seen. It was bitter. The debate over Reaganomics was bitter. People did hate him. A lot of people hated him. I was in a college bookstore when he was shot and there was happiness around.

JIM LEHRER: Really? Is that right?

DAVID BROOKS: Yeah.

MARK SHIELDS: I didn't see that.

Who, What, Where, When, and How? Well we know "when", when Reagan was shot. We know how: It was a college book store and a bastion of liberalism.

And when Brooks says Iran Contra was a "bitter little Washington fight", does he mean to imply it was a petty fight over a little thing? What was "little"?