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| Page from 1887 Longworth scrapbook, Manuscript Room, Library of Congress. |
-- Alice and Nick's engagement photos
-- More photos from Alice Longworth's scrapbook
"I'd rather be lucky than good." That's what NY Yankee pitching ace "Lefty" (Vernon Louis) Gomez famously said about baseball back in the 1930s, but it goes just as well with politics. And when a politician is both lucky and good, it takes real skill to see it and recognize which is which.
