Books: A Wills Sampler

NELSON ROCKEFELLER. "First-generation millionaires tend to give us libraries. The second and third generation think they should give us themselves. (Naturally, some people want to look this gift horse in the mouth—which may be the reason Rockefeller keeps his teeth on display.)"

BARRY GOLDWATER. "His backers said, 'Barry has an inferiority complex.' He did not. He had an inferiority simplex—the plain knowledge, never shirked, that he is a lightweight. And he loved his country too much to put it in the hands of a lightweight."

GEORGE WALLACE. "All energy and strut . . . he has the dingy attractive air of a...

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