Over lunch, he admitted that when he left office in 2008, he suffered a bout of the blues: without the adrenaline rush of power, it was tough to cope with the endless criticism of his policies.

在那次午餐时，他承认2008年卸任后他有一段时间情绪低落：没有了权力所带来的兴奋感，要面对无休止的批评——针对他所施行的政策——是很艰难的。

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And, like the unstoppable power of tidewaters, the reality of our lives would rush in: an overflowing pile of snail mail, a deluge of emails, a flood of phone calls, and a stream of meetings.

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That power has almost visibly started draining away as political leaders fall over each other in their unseemly rush to distance themselves from an increasingly toxic media empire.

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