The use of the word great is so frequently applied to numbers of Presidents that I myself, having once written a series of, I think, extremely poor essays, I regret to say, on the first sixteen Presidents of the United States, I wouldn't try in my own mind to try to fix the place in history of any President until he had been dead for at least fifty years.
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Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.David Bruce
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