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Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrot ....
Which is some kind of a rudimentary indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassinated. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to emphasize the most is simply the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single political entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 535 other federal elected officials, im re ....
Were going to have a repeat today, but its warmer than yesterday. As we take a look satellite once again similar to yesterday, clouds here and there, but they should melt away, but High Pressure in control. The winds are bouncing around around the region, but not all not that strong him were not pulling a southwesterly flow pronounced and the humidity will stay low. Millville, 58. 6 in philadelphia. 61 in trenton. 68 in sea isle city. Some of these numbers may go down before they start to pop back up. 65 by 6 00. Cool and comfortable in philadelphia. 68 by 8 00. Mainly clear skies, this afternoon, 68 83 i should say by noon. 86 degrees by 3 00 p. M. Well get a high of 87 degrees well probably pop that in around 4 00 p. M. Looks like it is dry and well have fair weather cumulus popping up like yesterday. Karen rogers we have a hot and humid change for the weekend, ill have the numbers coming up. Reporter its bounds to happen. Lets c ....
And then i saw the gun and he can see no space it was like he looked at me and said dont move it. The first of three armed robberies friday alone. It was scary we been in her 47 years and nothing like this has ever happened and it wasnt over yet that my police say the suspect held that the said Dollar General store and mama rosas restaurant on brown street targeting this popeyes chicken did the day before either a bandanna or some kind of article of clothing lieutenant rick edwards is as he suspected a more than a dozen robberies since june seen here in action at the lomax and talmage avenue so far no one has been hurt to but theres growing concern over the escalating intensity and you just a normal thing you try to lock your doors about your windows your home but you cant literally be afraid to go out of your home every body to steves. To go the Akron Police Department< ....