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Once You're Done Being President, You Tend To Want To Defend Your Record More Than Plumb Your Inner Feelings. I Find It Hard To Imagine Obama Going Home At Night And Writing Sensitive, Introspective Journal Entries About His Meeting With John Boehner.

I Can't Tell You How Many Times I've Had Conversations With Politicians Who've Done Something Morally Reprehensible But Not Indictable, Yet Still Think They Should Be Able To Stay In Office. The Office Isn't A Right. It's A Kind Of Loan.

Any Time You Write History, You Insert Your Opinion. You Pick And Choose What You Are Going To Write About. I Feel Really Happy Not Inserting Myself. I Spend Too Much Of My Life Inserting Myself. It's Just Great To Let Other People Carry The Narrative.

For Years I've Been Hearing 20-somethings Say They Don't Expect Social Security To Be Around When They Hit 65. Eventually, I Came To Realize That They Really Mean That They Just Don't Expect To Be 65. Or 40. Neither Did I, When I Was 22.

Bin Laden Wasn't All That Central To The Terrorist Network Any More, But Taking Him Down Created A Kind Of National Catharsis. It's Been A Really, Really Long Time Since We Had Something To Celebrate That Didn't Involve A Sports Team. I'd Rather It Had Been A Non-death-related Occasion, But We'll Take What We Can Get.