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From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

James Thurber

James Thurber (1894–1961), U.S. humorist, illustrator. James Thurber Collecting Himself (1989).

From an unpublished manuscript, dated March 20, 1961, said of the Kennedy-Nixon TV debates.

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