Measuring the Drapes

[Baker, John]

        The Washington Post today has an article on political references
to presidential candidates measuring the drapes for the White House as a
way to criticize overconfidence,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR200810
2203446.html.  The Post takes it back to 1980.  Can we do better?


John Baker

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