Public opinion had softened Hull's earlier ultralegal position that Americans who enlisted in the armies of foreign countries had lost their citizenship, […]

"Finding them won't be a problem. There's employment records, driver's license records, Social Security records, records up the gump-stump. […]

I got to drain the main vein, kiddo, so you just stay put.

Asserting a conjunction would be irrational if the epistemic grounds for one conjunct defeat those for the other, for example when the two conjuncts are logically inconsistent.