Words matter, especially when spoken by people of power. I once read a book that dissected the 271 words of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. Would that speech have become historic if, instead of phrases like “a new birth of freedom,” he had used phrases like “a reaffirmation of our values”?
President Obama said the U.S. commitment to Israel\’s security \”must not waver\” and that the world must unite against Iran\’s nuclear ambitions.
Unhappy with the draft of a speech he was to deliver at the Jewish state\’s 50th anniversary celebration and frustrated with five Jewish aides who were unable to discuss the first biblical references to Israel, Vice President Al Gore took a break for dinner while his staff scoured Air Force Two for a copy of the Bible.
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