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Bill Press: The battle for the soul of America

We all remember that fateful day, September 11, 2001, and the moment when President George W. Bush got the news. While Bush was reading to a group of second-graders at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card walked in and whispered into the president’s ear: “America is under attack.”

Today, Chief of Staff Ron Klain might well whisper those same words to President Joe Biden. Because in a very real sense, “America

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