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To: small voice in the wilderness

Like it or not, Clinton's legacy is how history will remember him. He is in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Roosevelt has "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Reagan has "Mr. Gorbachov tear down this wall!" HW Bush has "Read my lips, no new taxes!"

Bill Clinton has:
"It depends on what the meaning of the word is is."
"I did not inhale."
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

All were ways of misrepresenting the truth, and none have anything to do with leadership. His legacy is set in stone.

DK


26 posted on 06/16/2004 4:55:02 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight

Yep..his legacy wasn't written on an Etch-A-Sketch. It's over, done, and sealed. And there's not a thing he can do about it. I personally take great comfort in that.


36 posted on 06/16/2004 4:59:36 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: Dark Knight
Like it or not, Clinton's legacy is how history will remember him. He is in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Roosevelt has "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Reagan has "Mr. Gorbachov tear down this wall!" HW Bush has "Read my lips, no new taxes!"

According to Larry Elder, the person that is currently making the decisions as to which quotations get listed has made no bones about the fact that he despised Reagan, and the Reagan quote you cite is nowhere to be found in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

You can search an alphabetical index of authors here, and as you can see, no Reagan.

Elder says that the ratio between libs/conservatives and 'rats/pubs quotations is something like 50:1

61 posted on 06/16/2004 5:19:18 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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