Has there ever been a more cathartic moment in the history of the nation?
Do you suppose that people would have gathered in auditoriums to watch the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appamotox, had CNN been there to broadcast it?
When Nixon left Washington, was there the same sense of closure? Did the nation stand straighter with Gerald Ford taking the office?
We replaced that president with this one. How utterly fantastic.
As Dylan tells us in "Mississippi," once his ship has split to splinters: Things should start to get interesting right about now.
I expect that our collective national sigh of relief affected global wind patterns, knocking butterflies off course in the antipodes, which will -- eventually, and in due course -- bring the hint of spring to the prevailing westerlies. To bastardize Reagan (and who wouldn't love to do that): It is cocktail hour in America.
Do you suppose that people would have gathered in auditoriums to watch the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant at Appamotox, had CNN been there to broadcast it?
When Nixon left Washington, was there the same sense of closure? Did the nation stand straighter with Gerald Ford taking the office?
We replaced that president with this one. How utterly fantastic.
As Dylan tells us in "Mississippi," once his ship has split to splinters: Things should start to get interesting right about now.
I expect that our collective national sigh of relief affected global wind patterns, knocking butterflies off course in the antipodes, which will -- eventually, and in due course -- bring the hint of spring to the prevailing westerlies. To bastardize Reagan (and who wouldn't love to do that): It is cocktail hour in America.
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