Presidential Pulpit
“Every president, at least every president I’ve
studied, going back to Teddy Roosevelt, believes that he understands the
truth better than the press does.”
—David Greenberg,
historian, in Linda Feldman, “Lots of voters say the press fabricates Trump stories. What’s going on?” Christian Science
Monitor, Oct. 26, 2017. (Thanks to alert WORDster Terry Marlow)
• Editorial Comment: Oh, bully.
• WORDmeister Note: This WORD originally referred to presidential “truth” back to FDR. Professor Greenberg reports from Rutgers that he actually said TEDDY, not Franklin Roosevelt. The error appears in the Christian Science Monitor story.
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you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a
little.” —Tom Stoppard
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