From: Nick Naym on
In article hqgj2n$bs9$1(a)news.eternal-september.org, Wes Groleau at
Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org wrote on 4/18/10 11:35 PM:

> On 04-18-2010 10:22, Nick Naym wrote:
>> Eloquent.
>
> The first time, maybe. The second was completely unnecessary,
> as I had already read the original.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds
himself no wiser than before..."


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From: Fred Moore on
In article <michelle-513721.08103319042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote:

> In article <__ednV-C54M32FbWnZ2dnUVZ_gidnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>,
> russotto(a)grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) wrote:
>
> > >> Bush II and Nixon were *actively* bad Presidents.
> > >
> > >I maintain that if not for Watergate and all that went with it (e.g.,
> > >the enemies list), Nixon would have gone down in history as one of the
> > >best presidents of the 20th century.
> >
> > ...and aside from THAT, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
>
> Exactly. Watergate and all that went with it overshadowed everything else
> he did in his life.

However, it started WAY before then. His Checkers Speech was a pretty
good template for 'I am not a crook...'.