Word: lese
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...recalled Gerald Ford. He once fell into a small river near his dacha outside of Moscow, surely drunk, possibly related to a tawdry love affair. On another occasion he was too soused to leave his plane to meet with the Irish Prime Minister - even as aides committed the ultimate lese majeste and slapped him hard to bring him to consciousness...
Meacham's version contains no revisionism or lese majeste. On the contrary, it is written with a sort of intelligent reverence and ends by looking at the Churchill and Roosevelt memorials in Westminster Abbey in light filtered through stained-glass windows: "Light from a world Roosevelt and Churchill together delivered from evil...