From: "John Beamish" 

What I came in time to believe is that the great shortcoming of this White
House, the great thing it is missing, is simple wisdom. Just wisdom--a
sense that they did not invent history, that this moment is not all there
is, that man has lived a long time and there are things that are true of
him, that maturity is not the same thing as cowardice, that personal
loyalty is not a good enough reason to put anyone in charge of anything,
that the way it works in politics is a friend becomes a loyalist becomes a
hack, and actually at this point in history we don't need hacks.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

Yes, *that* Peggy Noonan.

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