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Different ambiguities there, if you just say i regret something, you're you're indicating a state of mind. you really have to indicate remorse by using words like apology our sore eye. particular -- sorry, particularly with a public apology. in a public apology where it's at a distance, it's much easier to try to be slippery. >> right. give us an example of maybe a historic apology, from the political world, which i'm sure there are many of those. >> yeah, i found that there were lots more bad apologies than good apologies. and there was a great old one from harry truman. give'em hell, harry, ...

Amendment to the constitution outlawing slavery. and even though today's federal holiday is officially washington's birthday, it's really become a day when we look back on all the presidents. we've heard it time and again. you can never really understand what it's like to be president unless you are one of the few who have actually been there. over the years we have gotten some pretty inventive descriptions of that. being president is like running a cemetery. you have a lot of people under you, and nobody is listening. well, that's slightly morbid. the description came to us from bill clinto...

Some pretty inventive descriptions of that. being president is like running a cemetery. you have a lot of people under you and nobody is listening. well, that's slightly morbid. the description came to us from bill clinton. neck, being president is like being a jackass in a hail storm. there's nothing to do but stand there and take it. that's pure lbj. here is another on the same suggest. if i were two-faced, would i be wearing this one? no stranger to self deprecating jokes about his appearance. that was honest abe. i discovered being president is like riding a tiger. a man has to keep on rid...

So-called princes of privilege. the whole 99 versus 1 that obama's doing now is straight from the fdr playbook of 1936. and as for 1948 and harry truman, yes, it's give 'em hell obama, although it's more of a harvard type of give 'em hell than truman of the midwest. but he's able to -- what truman had not working for him in '48 was the democratic party had splintered. it formed a progress i party of henry wallace, strom strom thurd had created the dixiecrat party. he's got an attitude of blaming the do-nothing congress like truman did, except truman didn't have a consolidated democratic party,...

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