Associated PressOctober 18, 2021
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Powell's place as first African American to lead America's military and state department complicated by erroneous Iraqi information.
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Associated PressOctober 18, 2021
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was contemptuous of “foolish consistency,” calling it “the hobgoblin of little minds.” Oh Waldo, if you could see us now! By his eloquent standard, worse than consistent fools, Americans have devolved into intellectual Lilliputians. It wasn’t ever thus. Some of our greatest presidents have been “wisely inconsistent,” sanely changing their minds in […]