"Just Average"

General John Joseph Pershing gave an interview to newshawks on his 70th birthday (Sept. 13). Excerpt: ". . . Nothing gives me more happiness than that I have never been drawn into political life. I have watched what happens to holders of high political office. I have seen their every word distorted and twisted to find some hidden meaning. I have seen their political supporters picture them as prodigies of wisdom and statesmanship while their opponents at the same time set them out as stupid scoundrels. And I have known them, and known that they were neither the one nor the other, just average Americans."

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