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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.

Lewis H. Lapham

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Lewis H. Lapham
Age: 90
Born: 1935
Born: January 8
Journalist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Lewis Henry Lapham
Lewis Lapham
Disowned
Hidden
Broken
Thousand
Pieces
Power

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Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.
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