Second Acts
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Contrary to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous assertion — “there are no second acts in American lives” — two prominent Americans in the autumn of their years are experiencing luminous encores. Their public lives have been lived at the opposite ends of the political spectrum. One is a folksy Georgian Democrat; the other, a slick Texas Republican. Together they may end up doing permanent harm to American foreign policy.
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