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For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 15
Died: 2007
Died: February 28
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible mixed economy, thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
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