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Henry Watterson: “In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.”

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In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.
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Henry Watterson
Democratic · Kentucky

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Watterson describes this individual as an opportunist lacking in conviction.

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