At the same time, Clinton is a grave sign of the times, of our national amnesia about our moral and political traditions. Only a country that had lost its memory and its capacity for heroic aspiration could have chosen and endured such a man as its leader. In the end Clinton's presidency was saved because of the erosion of moral standards he himself had done so much to promote. It was fitting that one of his chief defenders should be Larry Flynt. Santayana's overused line has it that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
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