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“Reason pushes the viewer back, it assaults him, it demands that he agree or disagree,” noted Nixon speechwriter William Gavin. “Impression can envelop him, invite him in, without making an intellectual demand.”
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“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
― The Passage of Power
― The Passage of Power
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