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Next, Cohn repeated what everyone was saying: Interest rates were going to go up over the foreseeable future. I agree, Trump said. “We should just go borrow a lot of money right now, hold it, and then sell it and make money.” Cohn was
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“Donald Trump is not a religious man—that’s no secret to anyone. He viewed the faith community as a political constituency.”
― Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
― Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
“It had been there plain as day before me, but my attention had been distracted by a far more dramatic, impressive crevice that turned out to be nothing but a dry run. Funny how that works in life, both with places and with people.”
― Out There: Essays on the Lower Big Bend
― Out There: Essays on the Lower Big Bend
“Another expedition journeyed far to the east, across the Panhandle of Texas, and contacted a party of Caddoan Indians. These were Hasinai, but the Spaniards called them Tejas, from the Caddoan Teychas, meaning “allies” or “friends.” This word was spelled “Texas” frequently in old Spanish, in which the “x” was substituted for a “j” sound, and from this mistaken tribal name the land derived its name.”
― Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
― Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
“We were playing a story game Bucky had invented called the Last Supper. It consisted of allowing those evil, avenging creatures of God—horseflies—to light on the exposed skin of your arm or leg and take a bite. At that point, you make up an epitaph, which you deliver to the horsefly as he eats his last meal, and then you flatten the little bastard. The speeches are voted on by those in attendance, and the best speech wins a bottle of wine.”
― A Salty Piece of Land
― A Salty Piece of Land
“And since he was busy, he was difficult to interview. A high-pressure reporter from a Kansas City paper made the long journey to the ranch and found him sweating over a pair of post-hole diggers, the dirt a-flying. He rushed up to the Colonel, thrust out a glad hand, and breezily announced: ‘Colonel Goodnight, Brown is my name.’ Straightening from the task the Colonel drilled him with his eye, and roared: ‘What in the hell can I do about it? I didn’t name you.”
― Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman
― Charles Goodnight: Cowman and Plainsman
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