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Does This Ring a Bell?

“Through the land, an excitement for change had welled up from profound frustration. But its concrete expressions were only slogans, epithets, meaningless phrases, the shout of crowds – not issues, programs, policies.”

-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., on the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson, in: The Age of Jackson, 1945

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  1. Ol' Jack Burton says

    Yes! It does.



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