“I think of the things that have come before me during the day and the decisions that I have made, I say to myself—well, I have done the best I could and turn over and go to sleep.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt as transcribed by Kearns Goodwin, Barack Obama and Doris Kearns Goodwin: The Ultimate Exit Interview
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