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Debate Satire

All Things Considered ponders how famous speeches might have been improved if only they had included references to "just plain folks" in the crowd. From Marc Anthony's Oration on the Dead Body of Julius Caesar, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and through the famous words of FDR and JFK, we insert the anecdotal remark.

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