Garry Wills has argued, after all, that Irish Catholic ideas about sin that sin is negotiable currency, to be practiced, done penance for, forgiven allowed John Kennedy some serenity as he screwed his way through the White House typing pool, just as the habits of Protestant Evangelical belief, in forgiveness and temptation and forgiveness, in a never-ending cycle, helped Bill Clinton find a common language with working-class people.
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