Just As I Thought

Wisdom from Tommy

Tommy Smothers, speaking yesterday at the debut of the Wolf Trap summer schedule:

“George Washington chopped down the cherry tree. When asked about it, he said, ‘I cannot tell a lie, I did it.’ Richard Nixon said, ‘I cannot tell the truth.’ Bill Clinton said, ‘I cannot tell the difference.’ And George W. Bush still can’t find the cherry trees,” he said, to loud applause.

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