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History shows that no administration, from the time of Washington to the present, has been free from these mistakes.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “History shows that no administration, from the time of Washington to the present, has been free from these mistakes.”
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Sherman notes that all administrations have made mistakes throughout history.
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