Claire Booth Luce, the renowned 20th century politician and playwright, was fond of lecturing many of the presidents she knew — from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan — that history would remember them in one sentence.
“History has no time for more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence with an active verb,” she said. Then she would illustrate, “Lincoln, he freed the slaves and saved the union,” before challenging them: “What will your sentence be?”
Barely out of office a week and still a political force, Donald Trump‘s place in history, let alone his sentence, is bound to be debated for years to come.
Under any circumstances, it takes a generation or more for historians to sort out a presidency with any degree of objectivity. The distance of years — as passions recede, presidential records are declassified and evaluated and perspective is offered — allows more…
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