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November 30, 2011
Mark Twain Announces for the Presidency, June 15, 1879
I have pretty much made up my mind to run for President. What the country wants is a candidate who cannot be injured by investigation of his past history so that the enemies of the party will be unable to rake up anything against him that nobody ever heard of before.If you know the worst about a candidate to begin with, every attempt to spring things on him will be checkmated. Now I am going to enter the field with an open record. I am going to own up in advance to all the wickedness I have done, and if any Congressional committee is disposed to prowl around my biography in the hope of discovering any dark and deadly deed that I have secreted, why–let it prowl. -- (Harper's Magazine)
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 30, 2011 9:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.