Chance Beckett

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    The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the principles of individual and local responsibility and mutual self-help before they embark on what I believe to be a disastrous system. I feel sure they will succeed if given the opportunity.
    Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)

    “Yes or no?” said Murphy. The eternal tautology.
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)