Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

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The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

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That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

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Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

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