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“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia,” said Winston Churchill on the eve of the Second World War. “It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma.”
“Let me just say this,” quipped Bill Clinton on the eve of his heart surgery. “Republicans aren’t the only people who want four more years here.”
“It’s coexistence or no existence,” said the philosopher Bertrand Russell many years ago.
“If it squirms, it’s biology; if it stinks, it’s chemistry; if it doesn’t work, it’s physics; and if you can’t understand it, it’s mathematics,” quipped Magnus Pyke some years ago.
Right after President George W. Bush is sworn in, he’ll give a speech from the U.S. Capitol that’s full of soaring rhetoric and lofty ideals. An inaugural address is a unique occasion for a president to skip over the nuts and bolts of public policy and lay out a grand vision for America. Like his predecessors, Bush will try to speak to the ages. From Abraham Lincoln’s “malice toward none” to John F. Kennedy’s “ask not,” an inauguration is an occasion to utter immortal words. And only a handful of chief executives have had an opportunity to do it twice.
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