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The Pat On The Back, The Arm Around The Shoulder, The Praise For What Was Done Right And The Sympathetic Nod For What Wasn't Are As Much A Part Of Golf As Life Itself.

In A Political Sense, There Is One Problem That Currently Underlies All Of The Others. That Problem Is Making Government Sufficiently Responsive To The People. If We Don't Make Government Responsive To The People, We Don't Make It Believable. And We Must Make Government Believable If We Are To Have A Functioning Democracy.

Too Often Critics Seem More Intent On Seeking New Ways To Alter Congress Than To Truly Learn How It Functions. They Might Well Profit From The Advice Of Thomas Huxley, Who Said A Century Ago: Sit Down Before Facts As A Little Child, Be Prepared To Give Up Every Preconceived Notionor You Shall Learn Nothing.

I Am The First To Admit That I Am No Great Orator Or No Person That Got Where I Have Gotten By Any William Jennings Bryan Technique.

We . . . Declared Our Independence 200 Years Ago, And We Are Not About To Lose It Now To Paper Shufflers And Computers.