“He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.”
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“Harry Truman used to talk of Potomac Fever, an endemic disorder the symptoms of which were a swelled head and a general decline of common sense.”
― Brave Companions: Portraits in History
― Brave Companions: Portraits in History
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