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One cannot drive a gasoline engine with lubricating oil alone, and one cannot drive it well without a lubricating oil. It is the same with History. One cannot write a history consisting only of anecdotes and sidelights, but a history without these is barren, inadequate, unpalatable. So it is not a history that David S. Barry, onetime Senate page, longtime newspaper correspondent, and more recently Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, has written in his memoirs of four decades at the Capitol....

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