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Few Expected Very Much Of Franklin Roosevelt On Inauguration Day In 1933. Like Barack Obama Seventy-six Years Later, He Was Succeeding A Failed Republican President, And Americans Had Voted For Change. What That Change Might Be Roosevelt Never Clearly Said, Probably Because He Himself Didn't Know.

Schoolteachers Seemed Determined To Persuade Me That 'classic' Is A Synonym For 'narcotic'.

American Foreign Policy Had Still Not Recovered From Its Victory Over Communism When George W. Bush And Condoleezza Rice Took Over At The White House In 2001.

Television Was The Most Revolutionary Event Of The Century. Its Importance Was In A Class With The Discovery Of Gunpowder And The Invention Of The Printing Press, Which Changed The Human Condition For Centuries Afterward.

It Takes Great Self-confidence To Write A Newspaper Column. Some Might Say It Takes Arrogance. Be That As It May, My Willingness To Pronounce On A Great Many Matters Of Which I Have Little Or No Knowledge Is One Of My Prime Qualifications For This Trade.