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After nearly five years he had returned from one of the great scientific odysseys of all time. It was a journey that would capture the imagination of the age, but that has been strangely forgotten in our own time.

Eisenhower not only admired Clay’s success in the business world but considered him a walking encyclopedia of American politics.

As president, he lectured a young relative about to enter college that “every hour misspent is lost forever” and that “future years cannot compensate for lost days at this period of your life.”15

awesome vision of an ancient age of ice.

Mistaken as he may have been about evolution, he was by no means alone.

was after President Kennedy’s funeral that Congress passed legislation to provide full Secret Service protection to former presidents.