1st Earl of Arlington

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    There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “There are no millers any more,”
    Was all that she had heard him say:
    And he had lingered at the door
    So long that it seemed yesterday.
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)