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Mitch Daniels: A Study in Political Character

By Troy Senik
Thursday, June 21 2012

In “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,” Douglas Adams wrote “It is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it … anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” While Adams was presenting the line in a fictional context, it was hard to miss the application to American politics. Written in 1980, the book arrived with the memory of Richard Nixon’s presidency still fresh. And, with Jimmy Carter inhabiting the White House, the idea…

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