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Cu cu culmination his his hard work. That is true. You dont advance your cause by claiming personal credit. Let me give you another example of how a president s legacy can be totally different from what we think at the time. Harry truman to be bipartisan here, take a democrat, went out of office with the lowest poll ratings in history till that time. 2530 years later we had vietnam, watergate, and we looked back at truman and saw the real deal an authentic leader who got all of the big things right and the Little Things wrong. We forget the hawaiian sports shirts and stuff. That became endearing. Harry truman once said i wonder how far moses had gotten if he stopped to take a poll in the middle of the desert. Truman became a model of a divisive leader who took big decisions, who took responsibility, and by and large history has been much kinder to him than historians were at the time. In terms of obama, we said he wanted to be a transformitiative president but we will not know for 1015

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