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Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) ...Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Whispers column of U.S. News & World Report...Clintonesque," Mr. Henninger said. "Ronald Reagan, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill...nothing but net. "OK, it wasn't Demosthenes, but it was George W. Bush at his Everyman...

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