Thursday, April 20, 2006

And some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

The president has taken, those around him say, great comfort in biographies of previous presidents. All presidents do this. They all take comfort in the fact that former presidents now seen as great were, in their time, derided, misunderstood, underestimated. No one took the measure of their greatness until later. This is all very moving, but: Message to all biography-reading presidents, past present and future: Just because they call you a jackass doesn't mean you're Lincoln.
Peggy Noonan. Did they really call Lincoln a "jackass"? Where is Doris Kearns Goodwin when you need her?

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