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And despite promising "everything I've got," President Obama either did not know how, or chose not, to use the persuasive powers of the presidency, a la Lyndon Baines Johnson, to force them to act.11"
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In other words, in Barack Obama's world, incrementalism is good enough. Fortunately, nobody ever told that to FDR or Teddy Roosevelt, or Lyndon Johnson.
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The one who tried to beat Jules Verne's around-the-world-in-eighty-days record?" "The same. Verne's Phileas Fogg did it in eighty days in fiction. Nellie Bly did it in fact in 1889 and 1890. She went around the world in seventy-two days. Anyway, before that, while just starting out as a cub reporter on the New York World, Nellie Bly undertook a story about insane people who had been committed to Blackwell's Island and how they were being tr..
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They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived.
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An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias.
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