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BUSH OUGHT TO REMEMBER THE WORDS of H.L. Mencken: "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." All of Bush's simple solutions to our country's problems have been, invariably, wrong. I do not want as President an amiable fellow who does not accept that politics is about compromise. I would rather have an effective President whom I despise as a person than a wrongheaded one who is a good fishing buddy...
...believes in and makes tough decisions rather than trying to be Mr. Popular. Saddam Hussein would have done something terrible down the road, and Bush knew the way to act was quickly, while Iraq was vulnerable. Joseph Zoltek Glenside, Pennsylvania, U.S. Bush ought to remember the words of H.L. Mencken: "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat and wrong." All of Bush's simple solutions to our country's problems have been, invariably, wrong. I do not want as President an amiable fellow who does not accept that politics is about compromise. I would rather...
...parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in Peanuts. But his role as a TV host was a sideline for the British journalist who knew everyone and remembered everything. As a young Cambridge grad in the U.S., he became instant pals with Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination. All these encounters, and thousands more, he related in a weekly BBC chat series, Letter from America, that mesmerized millions...
...parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in Peanuts. But his role as a TV host was a sideline for the British journalist who knew everyone and remembered everything. As a young Cambridge grad in the U.S., he became instant pals with Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination. All these encounters, and thousands more, he related in a weekly BBC chat series, Letter from America, that mesmerized millions...
Social norms marketing may be easy to implement, but that does not mean that it works. H.L. Mencken may have been right when he said, “For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong...