Acting Governor Donald DiFrancesco address NJ Legislature; Donnie "D" inauguration ceremony

As. SPEAKER OF NEW JERSEY General Assembly and with Senator Joe play Speaker Senate President Pro Tempore at my side we would like to welcome all of you to this very special occasion. I would now like to ask everyone to rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Mr. Jack Jacobs. To the plight. Of the United States of America. And to the republic for which. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you Mr. Jacobs. Thank you for being a great American. Please remain standing for the invocation by Reverend Dave Bailey Sr.

Rancho Salem County New Jersey Rev. Bailey. Our new first lady said that with the weather today with snow it must be the angels are smiling. Well I just came from Salem County and they were smiling they were laughing. So praise God let's pray together for every thing there is a season and we thank thee for this season that has brought us together. It is a season to remember and we would remember at this time the many who have made this moment possible. We remember our governor the governor Christie Whitman for the legacy she has left for our state and now we anticipate her leadership in our nation. We remember the many in this room who have contributed so much to the growth of the state of New Jersey. We also pause Father God for a season of celebration. We celebrate what is taking place in this family today. These three

beautiful daughters the wife. And the husband. We celebrate the many years of Don's personal service to help the state and now to reach the acme of what any political leader wishes wishes to reach. To be able to lead a state as remarkably as he has done in the past. And Lord God it is also a time of course to stand on tip toes and look into the future. May we here in the state of New Jersey stand behind this one who we celebrate today and remember his past accomplishments and expect only the best to come in the future as he works with his fellow political servants here in Trenton. Make this a beautiful celebration. May we be mindful of the past faithful to the present. And hopeful for the future in our Lord's name we prayed Amen. Amen. Thank you Reverend Bailey and Captain Jacobs. Please

be seated. It is now my great honor to introduce my friend the acting governor of the great state of New Jersey the honorable Donald De France Esca. Wow Well I'm reminded

of one of my favorite actors who has a similar hairline in a movie not too long ago. This is really as good as it gets. Jack I remember that first day you were sworn in as a little snow on the ground then too. So welcome to New Jersey. It looks beautiful leaps from the inside. Mr. Speaker Mr. Senate president pro tem. Just remember that pro-tem. Chief Justice for its governor Florio members of the cabinet fellow legislators Senator Codey Assemblyman Doria I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for joining me today.

My first address really to the people of New Jersey I welcome this opportunity to speak to all the New Jersey residents as I will serve in the months ahead as both the legislator and chief executive. And let me also begin by applauding Governor Whitman for her outstanding leadership. Over the past seven years I join you. But as I thumbed through the newspaper the other day I wanted to take a moment to recognize a very special young man who was with us today that I saw in the newspaper the other day and asked that he come here. Brian Dillon is a fifth grader at the Hillcrest science and technology Elementary School in Franklin Township in Somerset County last Tuesday. Many of you may have read

he gave his classmates a lesson. I doubt they'll ever forget. Brian recognized that his friend Andrew who was here was choking on a piece of food and couldn't breathe. Ryan who learned the Heimlich maneuver from his mother reacted quickly dislodged the food are restored and was breathing probably saving his life. Brian is with us today with his parents grace and Orville. They all deserve our recognition. Brian would you stand up please. Of course as you're sitting next to him really was cheering there. I enjoyed.

This role as acting governor is really a privilege that I assume with humility but I accept with confidence the Constitution of this state provides for this transition and we will abide by that constitution. The business of government will go forward. I'm particularly pleased to be right here right here in this general assembly chambers because it was in this chamber that I was first sworn in into elective office 25 years ago. More than 25 years ago now. So I thank you Mr. Speaker for welcoming me back to your house the people's house. In fact I think I sat over here somewhere behind the column kind of anonymous and Sarkodie was over here ranting and raving usually as he always does. Right. You were right over here somewhere. Chardy I failed to mention the huge majority side on that side.

But in a way coming here symbolizes the approach I've always tried to take reaching out across the hallway across the aisle to find common ground on common goals. This transition obviously is a unique situation but I think it presents a unique opportunity to work side by side for the people that we all serve. As I was in 1976 I'm truly blessed today to have with me my family Diane and three kids that are a lot over. First rate tracing Morrissey were toddlers but they're grown women now and are very proud of them. But to people that couldn't be here. My parents Paul and Claire passed away some time ago. I truly miss because they took exceptional pride in my decision to

pursue public service. They believed in the strength and the equity of a democratic government. They relish the opportunities that it afforded its citizenry. My parents came from addling through Ellis Island. As young children and they spoke often about the tremendous hope that filled those people who came to our shores. They believed in the dream of a better life for each new generation. And I think of them today as I set out on this new and incredible journey I take with me that same Spirit of promise to guide them and still inspires all those who seek a greater good. In New Jersey. But I also take on this journey a deep understanding of the responsibility I've been given. I've been entrusted with not simply making government function but making government work for all the people. One way government works for all the people is by removing obstacles to a better quality of life.

For many New Jerseyans from the young couple starting out to the seniors striving to remain in their homes. There is no greater obstacle than high property taxes. I have a plan for easing this burden. I ask my colleagues in both houses to join me in enacting property tax relief. Now we're returning excess surplus to the taxpayers is the right thing to do. It's the relief they need. It is a relief. They truly deserve. Governor Whitman's budget as most of you know served in the legislature included the first piece of this plan doubling the saver rebate to an average of $500. Let's do more let's raise the homestead rebate for our seniors to $750. Seniors have waited 10 years for an increase that's too long and to make

sure. And to make sure that they never have to wait again. Let's index that homestead rebate to inflation. Costs have gone up for our seniors help for our seniors must also keep pace. We should also consider as part of our property tax relief plan. Speaker calls his proposal to raise the income threshold on the senior tax freeze program. Finally I recommend that we send more dollars back to our mayors and councils to help them keep a lid on property taxes. That's increased by 100 million dollars. The legislative block grant program. Let me remind you that's money that can only be used for property tax relief. Now another way that we can work together to improve our quality of life is to is to act on my proposals to protect our drinking water

build a healthier New Jersey and provide prescription drugs for middle class seniors. I know these are goals we all share. Now let's join together and take action. Now I know my colleagues are committed to a cleaner environment and to helping seniors and taxpayers we must to vote that same energy to addressing a problem that may be less noted but is no less worthy. The plight of our neediest children at the dawn of the 21st century at a time of unparalleled prosperity no child's need should go on. This year the annual kids count report show that New Jersey has made significant improvements in Child Well-Being. That's something we can all be proud of. But that report also showed that nearly one out of eight children in New Jersey still lives in poverty at risk of hunger and chronic illness each week. More than 25 babies are born not having received prenatal care each week more than 200 cases of child abuse are

substantiated. These aren't just numbers or statistics. They are our children. None of us should rest until every child in every neighborhood has the opportunity to realize their dream of a better life. The answer isn't another blue ribbon panel or some well-intentioned task force. The answer is action. That's why I will personally lead an effort that will take me on the road along with key members of the cabinet to meet with those on the frontline those devoted to improving the lives of our least fortunate. I'm going to call this effort kids needs. It will bring us face to face with community and faith based organizations with teachers health care providers and caseworkers with parents children and the full range of children's advocacy organizations. Many have offered suggestions and plans. Now it's time to bring everyone together to forge consensus and take action. Action that I will initiate

I'll initiate this action and I'll do that right from my desk in the governor's office. My fellow citizens we must rededicate ourselves and redouble our efforts so that no child will be robbed of their youth and deprived of their dreams. I know firsthand how much we can accomplish when we join together behind a common goal. I take great pride in this past year that we all work together Democrats and Republicans to ensure that our children have the very best schools in which to learn the school facilities construction Act stands as a testament to what is possible when we put politics aside and make progress a priority. This.

New law will enable us to build top notch learning environments. But those dollars don't fix a leaky roof or replace an aging boiler if they're sitting in the back. That's why I'm also making it a top priority to get that money invested quickly efficiently in a way that ensures accountability and integrity. I want every child in New Jersey to walk into a school that is safe secure and sound. We will build world class schools by providing our children a world class education requires more new Jersey teachers are doing everything they can to make this happen. Now we should do everything we can to help our teachers. That's why I'll be directing the new commissioner of education to work with this legislature with this speaker this spring

to create the very best teacher training retention and recruitment program in the nation. New Jersey is already the best place to which to live to work and raise a family. Let's also make it the best place to teach a child. Now there can be no question that the key to a better life for each new generation lies in education. And while my own children are grown I'll continue to take a personal interest in our classrooms by visiting schools as I've done throughout my 25 years in the legislature. In fact tomorrow I'll be visiting Paterson East Side high with Assemblyman Steele and Martin Luther King and I'm pleased that Martin is here with us today. Thank you very much for joining us.

Pleasure. A world class education will give our children the tools they need to succeed in tomorrow's economy. But we also must ensure that our current workforce meets the needs of today's employers. Last year one to one out of five applicants for unemployment benefits did not have a high school diploma. Over 50 percent of people on welfare cannot read above the eighth grade level. Over 70 percent can do no more than eighth grade math. Moreover many of our newest residents are immigrants and many of them have limited English proficiency. With unemployment at 4 percent or below for the past year the demand for skilled labor has still remained high. Continued economic growth requires that we reach

out to training those whose lack of skills has caused them to be left behind. So today I'm directing the commissioner of labor to develop a workplace basic skills program. Let's give them all of our citizens the help they need to ride this wave of prosperity. Give employers the skilled workforce they need to keep this economic engine running at full speed Bella fellow citizens New Jersey I believe is truly an American mosaic. Our state is home to the most diverse state the most diverse population in the nation. I believe our diversity is an asset which we must invest. That means investing in programs which give everyone the same opportunity to realize their dreams. That

means fostering an environment that celebrates our state's historical its cultural and its artistic treasures. But most important investing in diversity means erasing the intolerance and insecurity that undermines our ability to thrive as a community. New Jersey. New Jersey has always been a leader in pursuing and advancing the rights of all individuals. Our history includes the congressional delegation in its unanimous support for the landmark Civil Rights Act in 1964. More recently we were among the first to mandate Holocaust education for all schoolchildren speak right and left that charge. We must call on that tradition as we face the ugly truth of racial profiling. This unjustified and unjustifiable practice has divided the state and has hurt the reputation of New Jersey's upstanding

law enforcement officers. It's time for answers for outreach and for solutions. I look forward to receiving recommendations from center Morleys committee that will signal not just an intolerance for profiling but will finally result in a termination of this practice. I commend him. I commend him for his leadership in this effort. Our commitment and racial profiling is unwavering but justice strong is our commitment to stand behind the members of law enforcement who deserve our support because they've earned it.

Let's not allow. Let us not allow the sins of a few to undermine the courageous achievements of many. The uniqueness of the uniqueness in my position will enable me I believe to stay very close to this legislature and I'll count on the input of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and in both houses. Over the years I've come to know me and my style of leadership much has been written about this. I do believe in consensus. I do believe in bringing people together to achieve progress. While my title may have changed I promise that my commitment to this partnership will never end. Now having said that I recognize this is election year.

But putting people ahead of politics will signal to all the Jerseyans that we remember and respect the oath we took as legislators. Now many years ago a writer working on a book on the immigrant experience asked my mother about her own experience in New Jersey. And last year I was leafing through this book and I remember what she said originally. She told the author and I quote We came over here with nothing but bare hands. This country gave us a chance to work. We worked hard for our children and now they've got what we work for. We're satisfied born of this soil on foreign land. All New Jerseyans aspire to the dream. My own parents realized the dream of a better life for each new generation. And I know for my parents that they would want me to lead this state

in a way that encourages all of us to create a better life for each new generation. It is the best gift they gave me and it's the best gift we can give. New Jersey. Mr. Speaker and Mrs. Collins I thank you. God bless all of you. Now let's get to work. Thank you. I would like to ask Father Francis Schiller from St. Patrick in assumption.

All Saints parishes in Jersey City to offer the benediction. Father sheller. Relevant barely. But well weather from Salem County. So we brought the bad weather down from Hudson County. But oh my God we ask your blessing upon your servant Donald who assumes this role as governor of our state. Protect him watch over him along the line the Molong years of service as governor. And we also ask you to keep his family and your blessings and to also keep in his mind always the ideals that you espouse that his parents gave to him as a young person growing up and we ask you to protect and watch over all of us. Guide your legislators guide the governor and protect the people of New Jersey in

our prayers and wishes are with you acting governor. All Please join me. The acting governor and his family and friends at the receptions throughout the halls. This meeting is adjourned. The Union Hotel in the Flemington New Jersey. And right across the street

in Anderson County Courthouse is where Richard Bruno Hauptmann is going on trial for the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. And ladies and gentlemen on my right is attorney general of the state of New Jersey who is prosecuting. Richard Bruno. And because the case of course is still in progress it is possible for me to ask the attorney general to say a single solitary word. We understand that and I hope you will also understand as well. But nevertheless I can put my hand on the attorney general's shoulder and even move my arm around my shoulder and point out to you that he is a very swell prosecutor. He's done a fine job today. Natalie dressed. Sometimes in a white suit. And his dark hair slicked back in the manner of Rudolph Valentino. Lance knew a brutal murder or when he saw one and because he was an ambitious politician hoping to be elected governor of the state he was careful to present his public with what it wished

to see and hear. Gordy's spectacle and heartwarming revenge. The Daily News praised his questioning of how. As a five hour masterpiece of chairing a witness to pieces. You. Will learn. QUESTION One hundred and sixty witnesses. Most of them for the answer in fact. Many of them were made available to press conferences and handed out by surprise. What else can. I identify which is happening today. The man whom I used

to conduct for her station March nineteen hundred fifty two. I. Don't know Richard. As a man. Today we take for granted the standard set of photo opportunities meant to spin the story in a preferred direction but in 1932 the spin was something new. So was the experiment with newsreel cameras in the courtroom. Judge Trent should permitted their presence because like wavelengths he wished to see himself made famous. He did so on the understanding that the footage wouldn't be seen until the trial was over. The press didn't keep the bargain and when the newsreels promptly appeared in movie theaters they're showing provoked so much criticism that cameras were barred from courtrooms for the next 15 years. A fair amount of the state's evidence had been fabricated or grossly distorted and more than one prosecution witness committed perjury. Dr.

Condon the Bronx intermediary or arranged for the payment of the ransom subsequently had failed to recognize Hauptman in a police lineup. He appeared in court to say that he had recovered his memory that yes. Now that he had been given time to think about it. How was the very man he had seen that day at the cemetery. I and. I. Got. A witness introduced as the Sherlock Holmes would. Assured the court the real six. One of the runs in the ladder placed against the nursery window of Lindbergh's house. Had been cut from a piece of lumber miraculously found two years later in Hauptman garage. To show brain tumor.

The trial lasted six weeks. The ladies and gentlemen of the press taking names across the street from the courthouse in the Union Hotel where the members of the jury will also stay. The interested parties columnists Western Union demographers witnesses are arriving by train from Trenton and the jurors who sat hidden behind the curtain ate their meals in the same volume. Exchanging remarks about the texture of the beef stew and the freshness of the day's evidence. The arrangement provided the press with spectacular copy of a kind no longer available under the rules. It's a question of jury until the close of the trial. The Hearst press did what it could to stage managed the trial as if it were an episode for 60 minutes. As a first step. First hired as have Drummond's defense attorney. And I'm confident from them Edward J Reilly who

agreed to reveal his client's confidences to one or another the first columnists. 10 years prior to the FLEMING-GINN trial Riley had been known in Brooklyn for winning acquittals for notorious gangsters. But although he still dressed the part. Morning code striped pants and spats. He was long past the days of his smoothly turned to courtroom sophisms. He staged half hearted attempts to cast doubt on the prosecution's case. Huffman's unassailable alibi for his whereabouts on the night of the kidnapping. The absurdity of the premise is that when acted alone. But most of Riley's evidence was declared inadmissible and all of his witnesses were portrayed by the press as well as the prosecution as Bootleggers thieves and swindlers were lunatics. We are not bad they say that testimony will be really no Reckitt it not

right. Oh no. Reilly never had a good day in court. What in the evenings he was comforted by a succession of Showgirls who turned up at the shell bearing magnums of Mr Hearst's champagne. Their arrival was prompted Riley to make the same excuse while detaching himself from his companions at the hotel bar. I'm sorry gentlemen he would say but I see that I must give dictation to my secretary. The Court TV and at 10 o'clock in the morning and then again after a break for lunch from two until four o'clock in the afternoon. Four times a day the jury walked the short distance between the hotel and the courthouse through a crowd as noisy as a crowd in a ball park shouting as if to Dizzy Dean or the Great Bambino. Burn em burn. How much. Charles Lindbergh came to court armed with a pistol in a shoulder holster. Sitting through

the whole trial in less than ten feet to the left of how two men in the same row of chairs. The spectators waited breathlessly to see him give vent to what the Herald Tribune called the scalding love of his rage. When Anne Morrow Lindbergh was asked to examine and identify her baby's blood stained clothes. The spectators wept. From the first day to the last the trial never lacked the presence of any celebrity. All of them come to dip their fingers in the blood of ritual sacrifice and mark themselves present for what H.L. Mencken called the most important event since the resurrection. The cafe society cried through that produces notable gangsta's famous nightclub on important actresses arrived from New York and Hesam touring cars blowing kisses to their fans waving hello to Jimmy Durante. Elsa not swelled. Ginger Rogers just funny.

The three most prominent representatives of the daily press each work from one of the first. Damon Runyon for the American Idol lodger's St. John for the Journal. Was a win show for the mirror. It is the most. Dramatic story I have discovered. And I'm very happy with the privilege of being. Connected to it. And then what then is the important journalists perceive themselves as celebrities in their own right. And they made no secret of their vanity. Runyan took an hour to get dressed in the morning because he regarded the selection of the suit as the first sentence of the day's story. He liked to mock Winchell as a fraud and a buffoon and he once remarked that nobody in particular but in a voice loud enough to carry well across the room. What do you think how many would rather do. Sit where he is or spend the rest of his life listening to Winchell's talk.

Winchell told people about the movies he had written for. The Presidency elected in the race sources a year ago. Say John was fond of dramatic entrances and as careful as Peter Jennings about the center of her hair and the designer of her shoes she arrives every day according to a new outfit assembled by Edith Head the dress maker to the stars who was then the leading costume designer in Hollywood. That's virtuosi of the tabloid phrase match the gaudiness of their writing to the stylishness of their clothes. Thus running on the testimony of Edmund Burke. They. Hand splendored gentle civil and Morrow Lindbergh the stage torn garments that her baby wore the last night. She's sewing on my live in this crib. As she sits in the witness stand this afternoon bravely fighting back tears. Or St. John on the sentencing of Bruno Kupfer man to death in the electric

chair. We have wept and sorrowed and crucified ourselves at the sight of this feet. This arch enemy of humanity. But we have spoken. Keep your bloody hands off our children. Or Winchell's reviewing the trial as if it were a Broadway play. Dapper day Lance a Perth Amboy finder runs off with a melodramatic crap that they look out over. The course of 700 reporters in Flemington filed a million words a day many of them said US Western Union telegrams some of them camped out in Morse code. All of them up to the standard of solid gold cliche set by Runyon Winchell and St. John. As well as hiring Riley is how one as a lawyer first signed how Palin's

wife Anna. Through a contract granting the exclusive rights to her intimate brief just three of his women reporters known to the trade as the sob sisters and is skewed as Diane Sawyer and the application of false sentiment. They conducted when we're called Three handkerchief interviews meant to reduce their readers to tears. Coming from the. What is your opinion of your position in this case. Hoffman. I'm sure you will be coming back. Towards the end of the trial Mrs. Hauptman discovered that the sob sisters had been

writing had no basis in fact. But when she complained about the way she had been used as a target of her said you don't understand we are here to sell newspapers. Of all the voices in the newspaper crowd only one of Edna Ferber. Just cried the trial as Barbara spectacle. The idiot laughing and revolting faces. As an affront. To civilization. Forever couldn't bear to watch more than a few days of the testimony. And in the one report she wrote for The Times. She gave voice. To her disgust. So there we sit and look at what. Hundreds and hundreds of us who have no business there. Who should be turned away from. We sit. And stare. Like vultures. Watching a living thing. Why. Why. We all like the song coolants. Like the knitting women watching their heads fall at the foot of the village to.

Make a difference in the fight. I guess you do to play with two different cats. Well. I guess. The. Trial.

Ended as it had begun in the atmosphere of a circus and a character of farce. So much has been sacrificed on the altar of celebrity. The camera is a lot more wrong. The distortion of the evidence the rush to headlines that it was hard to know whether one was really guilty. But decided to sign up with. The governor attorney general when I agreed with him on my. Behalf. In my. Time. On my. Behalf. And. I have a right to. Hold. Him. A governor. In my opinion. I doubt certain factors of this case. Not Alone in my mind but in the minds of thousands of the newly elected governor of New Jersey a man named Harold have questioned the verdict and offered to commute two men sentenced to life imprisonment if he would

confess to the crime for which he had been convicted and refused. Insisting as he had done since the day he was arrested that he never had seen much less harm baby Charles. I had the. Money. I can't tell. You. I see it. As an. End. Of. The law's delay postponed how execution in the electric chair until eight o'clock in the evening of April 3rd 1936. The flock of reporters and camera crews settled under the prison walls in the early afternoon. Waiting as patiently as vultures for the last headline on the far side of the police lines and at some distance from the flashbulbs an immense crowd gathered several thousand people restless with excitement and

loud with holiday laughter. Beyond the crowd and the national radio audience waited for Gabriel Heater to pronounce the word of doom. Here was the Walter Cronkite of his day and during the 32 days of the trial his nightly broadcast direct from FLEMING-GINN was a marvel of new technology and his audience was both breathless and immense. All wrapped up in a printing press that night wondering wondering and waiting is Hopman dead or alive. I don't know. No one knows except perhaps the group of men in a tiny chamber. The execution took place 47 minutes behind schedule. And so Peter was obliged to fill in the dead air with the same sort of improvised sentiment recycled by the television anchor persons waiting to know what had happened to John Kennedy Jr's plane. Non-weight 45 and still no word. On the human life of the state and will continue waiting. Waiting on.

Runyan was one of the 35 witnesses invited to watch how many died. His prose didn't flinch from the unity of the present tense. He described the prisoner as a man of iron. Silence. To the end. Hustled into the big wooden Machine of Death. Half a second later the first lightning bolt of death hits him. Then another shot and another. Six minutes later the doctors removed from the face the black mass. That is like a masquerade mask. The dead man's mouth is open in a ghastly manner. So here is. The time the deed was done. Had nothing left to say except. When a. Man has been executed. Midnight. Flash.

When I look at your AK 47 and I have come out without uttering a word and when to withhold my money to pay. Eight forty one. Was pronounced dead at 47. The execution is going to bore hole Hauptman his body wracked with electric shocks for a very long six minutes. On some of the reporters who had crawled up the demand for help death found themselves burdened with second thoughts about how much. One was left of how much he had seen and. How much. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey guy came hey man

I heard that any speaking on that night. She cried like a child. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey. Hey. Hey. Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey. Hey. Hey. Hey hey hey hey hey. Hey hi. Tragedy. The Lindbergh's didn't stay for the closing ceremony. They sailed for England in December 1935 three months before Hauptman was executed.

Obliged to hire bodyguards for the safety of their second child. They no longer could endure their pursuit of photographers or the press of strangers gawking at them in the street. America's most beloved hero chased into exile and free to go because he had declined the deal offered by the tabloid press. He refused to take the gift of celebrity in return for the man he could recognize as himself. We Americans are a primitive people Lindbergh's said. Without moral standards and little respect for the law or the rights of others. Lindbergh was thinking about the tabloid press and his objection has been sustained. It is always convenient to blame the news media to denounce them as the cause of all the world's sorrow as well as much of its crime and most of its own. But what do the critics expect. Apparently they

think that the newspapers and television broadcasts should provide them at a cost of 75 cents or less. Not only with violent sensation and high minded sentiment but also with moral instruction accurate weather forecasts and the truth. The expectation is a romantic as it is far fetched but it raises cries of alarm from conservative preachers and liberal poets. The criticism misses the point of the lesson taught by William Randolph Hearst. People like to listen to stories. To settle the wilderness of their experience with the fence posts of a beginning middle and an end. Some stories are more beautiful and complicated than others. Homer told the story. So did Einstein. So does Donald Duck. Almost everything presented in the theater or the news constitutes a kind of story and all the leading characters whether identified as Princess Diana or Charles Lindbergh become the

property of the public. I imagine that. If the writing of history resembles architecture journalism bears comparison to a tent show. The impresarios of the tabloid press drag into their tents whatever freaks and wonders might astonish the crowd. Their subjects is the circus of human folly. And the next day they move their animals to another edition instead of another town. To order a copy of legacy of the kidnapping from the press and the public project. Called 2 1

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