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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, There Was Only One Or Two First Ladies In All Of American History Who Made An Impact, Who People Could Even Have Recognized Or Identified. And It's Really Only Been Since Jackie Kennedy That There's Been This Idea That The Family Life Of The President Is Such A Central Thing.

I Did Some Research Once On The Way People In The Past Imagined The Year 2000. They Tended To Picture The Things They Already Had Getting More Sophisticated - Flying Cars, Self-cleaning Windows. And The Folks In The Early 1900s Had A Wildly Optimistic Estimate Of The Future Of Pneumatic Tubes.

Bin Laden Wasn't All That Central To The Terrorist Network Any More, But Taking Him Down Created A Kind Of National Catharsis. It's Been A Really, Really Long Time Since We Had Something To Celebrate That Didn't Involve A Sports Team. I'd Rather It Had Been A Non-death-related Occasion, But We'll Take What We Can Get.

Hillary Clinton Almost Got To Be President. The Reasons Why She Didn't Become President Had To Do With Bad Judgments About How To Handle The Early Caucus States, Which Is Not A Gender-specific Trait.

If Christmas Is For Families, What Do You Do When There Are Families Scattered All Over The Country? I Am Pretty Sure God Wants To Make Sure I Touch All The Bases, Even If I Spend His Actual Birthday With Delta Airlines.