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A great man, and tremendous debater, once advised us: Be hard on the opposition's ideas, easy on personalities, and silent on appearances. The president of the United States spoke the other night, in another State of the Union address, which really should be discontinued as a yearly project. But in some years--1930, 1942, 2002 come to mind--the nation might need a president to speak from a podium before Congress in early March. Just to let the rest of us know that somebody has the reins. This may be one of those years.

>> as a speech writer. i was writing campaign speeches. >> you were writing campaign speeches. >> but we were going through a very elaborate thing. listen to. this to obey the law then, we made a point of take off a day a week, a certain amount of hours of working for government as presidential speech writers, certain amount as working as writers for candidate carter. so we were very deliberate about observing the law. >> and of course president carter was not making fundraising phone calls from the oval office there are obviously bright lines over which you step you're in real serious trouble...