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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? – Jon Meacham

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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. – Jon Meacham

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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. – Jon Meacham

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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much. – Jon Meacham

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