"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause..." Theodore Roosevelt
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The second point is more troubling. Why did the President meet with all the former State and Defense Department heads? To discuss what he already has done or what he might do? There is a history of Presidents calling in former Cabinet heads to gather advice. Could they have been talking about
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