Riding the train home to Delaware at day’s end, long ago, my old pal Joe, then a young senator, would surely have wanted to discuss any momentous happening that America had seen on the TV news.
Especially if it was news about how yet another president had mindlessly trapped himself into telling an obvious lie on TV – and only made it worse the more he tried to make it better as the interview went on.
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