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By the time of Abelson’s final column, on Feb. 11, 2013, three months before his death, he had lampooned several generations of politicians. As we approach Inauguration Day, here are some of his observations on U.S. presidents coming and going, through the decades. Abelson didn’t address Richard Nixon’s first inauguration, in 1969, and he took a somber look at the problems facing Nixon in his second term, including a slowing economy and overseas entanglements. “Call us a cockeyed optimist,” Abelson wrote on Jan. 22, 1973, “but we think the pause that depresses will end when the war in Vietnam does.” He had fun with the arrival of Jimmy Carter four years later, observing on Jan. 24, 1977, how “our new President strode, those magnificent choppers aflash, from the Capitol to the White House, unencumbered by fur hat or earmuffs or muffler” despite subfreezing temperatures. Perhaps, Abelson speculated, politicians “are so full of hot air that they are insulated agai

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