Ben C. Bradlee

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    For of fortunes sharp adversitee
    The worst kynde of infortune is this,
    A man to han ben in prosperitee,
    And it remembren, whan it passed is.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
    —Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)