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...have any special respect for those whosit in Congress year after year rubber-stampingthe Cold War," Agran says. "In the past 12 yearswe have limited the pool of candidates togovernors an and sentators, and we have had themost awful, rotten years of presidency. Mycampaign is about changing that system...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: California DREAMIN': The (Former) Mayor Who Would Be President | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

When De Gaulle was out of power, he liked to describe the continual shifts of Ministers in the Fourth Republic's Cabinets by saying, "Chose, machin, chouette [thingamabob, thingamajig, whosit] are being replaced by chouette, machin, chose." He often referred to members of the National Assembly as pisse froid or pisse vinaigre. In private, he often called France "vacharde"-inert or uninspired. The fact was that France offered De Gaulle too limited a scope and power base. Try as he might, he could not change the basic reality that France simply lacked the specific gravity to offset the force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Glimpse of Glory, a Shiver of Grandeur | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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