PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH would “like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,” it says here. Well, that’s nice. I don’t recall either of my votes for the gentleman having been cast with that in, or anywhere near, my mind, but I won’t begrudge the departing president such consolations as he can find. Meanwhile my investments are down 35 percent from last year-end, a friend has just lost his business and had to put his house up for sale, and a Democrat steeped in crackpot college radicalism is heading to the White House.
Fans of H. L. Mencken will at any rate know where they are with that latest statement of our departing president: viz., in the presence of a World Saver. From Mencken’s obituary of Calvin Coolidge: “Counting out Harding as a cipher only, Dr. Coolidge was preceded by one World Saver and followed by two more. What enlightened American, having to choose between any of them and another Coolidge, would hesitate for an instant?”
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