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Woodrow Wilson. Suddenly realized I, too, was sitting at a computer. Thanks for the wonderful and scary diary.

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Sun Apr 15th, 2012 at 02:28:52 AM EST

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Wilson was well intentioned. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Keynes described his as being like a dissenting Protestant Minister. But he was succeeded by a string of business friendly, to say the least, Republicans until Herbert Hoover, who was a well intentioned Republican. As they say of the road to Hell...

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sun Apr 15th, 2012 at 03:21:36 PM EST
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