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- Title: Tilting at Windmills (Meshed Briefs)
- Author : Washington Monthly
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Reference,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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Washington at its best I For those of us who came to Washington with John Kennedy, January was a time for both mourning and celebration. On the 20th, a ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his inaugural speech was held in the Capitol rotunda. Congressional leaders spoke about how the challenge of "ask not" had affected them. I was struck by the fact that people whose speeches had rarely been notable for the emotion they aroused--people like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and John Kerry--actually became quite moving when they described how they had been inspired by those words,