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Calvin Trillin Quotes: The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.
         

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.


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