Joseph J. Ellis

Like the classic it has become, the Farewell Address has demonstrated the capacity to assume different shapes in different eras, to change color, if you will, in varying shades of light. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

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#interpretation #change

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

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#even #lives #made #mistakes

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

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#character #clinton #distinguished #had #history