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...Hang on just a second, you may be saying. What law-enforcement fantasyland is this guy living in? In this country, we send our users to jail and throw away...
...concentrations and proctors and Houses, wear black-tie attire whenever possible, grow dependent on the administration for food thanks to an expensive comprehensive meal plan and are obsessed, for better or worse, with all things Harvard. My mother has affectionately dubbed my experience here as a trip to 'fantasyland'--I get the "you know that's not how things work in the real world, don't you?" speech on a regular basis. Why not embrace our idiosyncrasies and make it official...
Nixon called a Cabinet meeting for that Tuesday, Aug. 6. Ford felt that the President was in fantasyland. There were demonstrators along Pennsylvania Avenue. The headlines screamed for Nixon's resignation. Nixon wanted to talk about inflation and the U.S. economy. Ford stared across the Cabinet table in wonder at this odd tableau. "The 'smoking gun' tape was out--the country was up in arms about it," recounted Ford. "Nixon was just plain out of touch, and his mind off there somewhere...
...liked, "but it's better to do the right thing, prove the city is manageable, so no one can ever say it isn't again." He's rightly criticized for tolerating police excesses, but with crime down and jobs up, Wall Street gushing and Times Square as clean as Fantasyland, he gets away with it. Because of the Catch-22 of First Ladies, Hillary doesn't have much of a record to tout. She can't take credit for exercising the power she's not supposed to have...
...believe in public life, you have to be listening," he added, mentioning that he often travels to talk to his constituents. "You stay at the State House all the time, it's a little like Fantasyland...