“The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.”

— Robert Orben

Marianne Means (September 26, 1986) "I Just Flew In From The White House - And, Boy, Are My Arms Tired", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. A10.

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American magician and writer 1928

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