“Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.”

—  Franklin D. Roosevelt

Comment to economic advisor Leon Henderson, as quoted in Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years (1969) by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 225
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