June 2012
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Here’s a fun little Theodore Roosevelt anecdote, as he supposedly told it:
You may possible recall — I am certain some of my New York friends will recall — that during the time I was a Police Commissioner, a man came from abroad — I am sorry to say, a clergyman — to start an anti-Jewish agitation in New York, and announced his intention of holding meetings to assail...
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At the breakfast table, in my house, an inflexible law compels all recountings of dreams to be compressed into a sentence or, better still, half a sentence, like the paraphrasings of epic films listed in TV Guide: “Rogue Samurai saves peasant village.” The recounting of a dream is—ought to be—a source of embarrassment to the dreamer, sitting there naked in fading tatters of Jungian couture....
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I’m twice as liberal as Hubert Humphrey, twice as intelligent as Stuart Symington, and twice as Catholic as Jack Kennedy.
- Eugene McCarthy
The columnist and Kennedy confidant Joseph Alsop recalled that during a plane journey in the 1950s, McCarthy came and sat by him and told him a series of anecdotes about Kennedy’s past: “real sort of hate stuff, and nasty hate...
