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Leonard Pitts Jr. riffs on congressional pursuit of Bill Clinton using Looney Tunes metaphors. He mocks Sunday bravado while contrasting endless chasing with personal downfall and calls for restraint. The column frames political obsession as self harming and urges focus on governance.
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In his inaugural remarks President Bush signals intent to pursue major changes. He asserts constitutional progress contrasts with a slaveholding past and acknowledges society's shortcomings while emphasizing action.
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This Day in History February Fourteenth
On this day in 1883 New Jersey became the first state to legalize labor unions. In 1946 ENIAC was shown publicly for the first time. Jacqueline Kennedy gave a White House tour on TV watched by eighty million.
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