> 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.
Kind of a Newton/Leibniz thing here: this has always been Smith's Fourteenth Law Of Life -- every president makes his predecessor look good. I had no idea that Baker had discovered it independently. I flatter myself that my formulation is more compact, like Leibniz' notation.
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Michael J. Smith
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