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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
Henry Addington, Statesman (1757) |
Hannes Alfven, Scientist (1908) |
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary (1814) |
Jennifer Ellison, Actress (1983) |
Steven Gerrard, Athlete (1980) |
Steve Israel, Politician (1958) |
Robert Casey, Politician (2000) |
Paul Desmond, Musician (1977) |
John B. Keane, Playwright (2002) |