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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
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John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic. President James Polk, in Buchanan Dying, act 2 (1974).
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