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not as much glory to go around
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as there is during the war.
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It's fraught with some skullduggery
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and corruption on an unprecedented scale,
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on all kinds of sides.
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It's a time of enormous imagination and experimentation,
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in politics and law.
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It's also the time in American history
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when we have by far
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our largest level of domestic terrorism and violence
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a good deal more on that in the weeks to come.
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But Reconstruction policy, of course, began during the war.