Edwin Meese III (1931) American presidential advisor
As quoted in "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach" (14 October 1985), U.S. News & World Report, p. 67
1980s
“I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.”
John Murray Gibbon, Pagan Love (1922), ch. xiv
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