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Daniel Webster finally is in the White House.

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David M. Shribman: The reconciliation of Daniel Webster By David M. Shribman Daniel Webster finally is in the White House. Until Joseph R. Biden Jr. put a bust of him in the Oval Office, Webster never inhabited the executive mansion, though he tried repeatedly between 1832 and 1852 to win the presidency. He was, to be sure, a constant presence there — as secretary of state to three presidents; as one of the towering congressional figures, along with Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, of his time; as a principal in all the important issues of his era. The closest he came to livi...

It will not be easy to eliminate treachery or improve judgment in the GOP. But, as we approach Donald Trump Beinart has a good, if pretty obvious, point. The desire for reelection is a strong incentive to adhere to the party line, and office holders are more inclined toward independence when they “worry more about how they will be judged by history than by their peers.” Beinart offers Thomas Hart Benton and Sam Houston as historical examples of senior senators who risked their careers to oppose slavery and reject secession, but he closes his essay very oddly with this quote from Massachus...