Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Quote of the Day (Forrest McDonald, on the Declining Caliber of American Presidents)



"The caliber of people who have served as Chief Executive has declined erratically but persistently from the day George Washington left office.” —Forrest McDonald (1927-2016), The American Presidency: An Intellectual History (1994)

And McDonald didn’t even live to see a President Trump…

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