December 2008
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Bad Days
All Presidents have bad days. The nature of the job itself guarantees that they will face adversity and challenges throughout their Presidency. It is no secret that the Presidency visibly ages the occupants of the White House more rapidly than what seems natural. For lack of a better term, it’s a grind, and it’s certainly not always fun. But the worst day of all for every President...
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Booth had died onstage dozens of times in Richard III, Hamlet, and Shakespeare’s other great tragedies, but tonight he was not playacting. He wanted to go down fighting, not hang like a petty thief. “I have too great a soul to die like a criminal,” he wrote in his diary a few nights before. “Oh may he, may he spare me that and let me die bravely.” For Booth, this...