“Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.”
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
