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Alistair Cooke - All Presidents start out pretending...
All Presidents start out pretending to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely, the presidency. (Alistair Cooke)

All Presidents start out pretending to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely, the presidency.

Alistair Cooke

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