[lbo-talk] rewriting history

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Jun 16 12:25:24 PDT 2006


On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Doug Henwood wrote:


> <http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=23362>
>
> June 16, 2006
> Americans' Retrospective Judgments of Clinton Improving

This reminds me of one of Russell Baker's most classic columns where he declared that every single president he had lived under in his long life had struck him as the worst president he'd ever experienced -- except that 20 years later, after experiencing what came after, they invariably looked like statesmen by comparison.

Michael



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