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Sun May 21, 2017, 07:44 PM May 2017

Place in history

By JOHN DICKERSON
CBS NEWS May 21, 2017, 1:31 PM

..."Look at the way I've been treated lately. Especially by the media," Mr. Trump said. "No politician in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly" ...

Actually, there's plenty of competition for that title. President John Adams was labeled .. hermaphroditic .. by a journalist ... A newspaper published that Jefferson was dead and when caught in the lie said they were .. trying to make readers feel better. Abraham Lincoln was called a gorilla and an idiot and a newspaper called for his assassination ...

... Lyndon Johnson said the presidency was like being a donkey in a hail storm. Sometimes you just have to stand there and take it ...


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/johns-notebook-president-trumps-place-in-history/

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