I’d like to tell one of my favorite Jack Kemp stories. He’s in Congress, on the floor making remarks about taxation or something. His wife and a young daughter are in the gallery. Some man behind them harrumphs, “What does he know about economics? He was a football player.” The daughter turns around and says, indignantly, “My daddy wasn’t a football player: He was a quarterback.”
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Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.
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