From: President Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 9:07 AM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Re: Greetings I am traveling, having done the first Candide in Russia (a= the White Nights) and on my way to Vienna for three concerts. I am back J=ly 9. Are you around during the summer? Opera visit? Leon

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blic, he now denied culpability in the Russian mess by claiming feckless naiveté; speaking in a reedy, self- pitying voice, he portrayed himself as a Candide-like figure who had become disillusioned by a harsh world. And that evening, the president traveled to West Virginia to deliver a speech before the

sense of making rosy predictions. But I seem to show that bias in evaluations. I’m two thirds Panglossian. (Doctor Pangloss was the guy in Voltaire’s Candide who said that this is the best of all possible worlds.) I side with the good doctor in that I cannot imagine an improvement to this world or to the h