9 September
F.D.R. should never have won the presidency - never mind
four times! - because of his polio; Truman, an abrasive country boy, should
have lost the job he accidentally got to the slick professional assault of the
Dewey machine of 1948; Ike started his political career having trouble focusing
on which political party he belonged to; Kennedy was too young, too Irish, and
too Catholic to get elected; L.B.J. should have gone under in the hurley-burley
of Washington politics, never mind the pressures of the presidency, with his
bad heart. Nixon lost the Presidency in 1960, then the California governorship
in 1962 – then elected President in
1968.
I’ll stop there. These men didn't stumble into the
achievement of their goal. They got there after they decided to get there.
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