This chapter explores how the Danish government upheld its policy but changed its argumentation on the question of giving an official apology–a change I suggest was introduced as a means of vindicating the policy of not apologizing for past wrongful actions in state-supervised social-care institutions. I describe this change in tactic and discuss its implications. Instead of embracing the call for an apology as an occasion for political work in the strong sense of engaging and acting on communal values for the common good, the Parliament majority treated the call as political in the weak sense: a tactical matter of holding on to power.