When people are having a good time, you don't want to be the skunk in
the garden. And this week, people were having such a good time at that
big White House welcome for the Queen. The New York Times says her
majesty was "making Americans go weak in the knees." Sometimes we
colonials seem so dazzled by British royalty that I wonder if General
Washington did defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown.
But a less playful thought also occurred to me watching the first and
royal families...
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