The Potemkin administration
All the president’s men are arriving very slowly—and it is beginning to show
THERE IS nothing like a trip abroad to convey the impression of the might of an American administration. The president is born hither and thither on Air Force One. He is surrounded by a praetorian guard of secret-service agents. The world's press corps hangs on his every word.
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