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Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
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He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
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The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings… — Henry Lewis Mencken Copy Share Image
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What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
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