Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:16 pm
Quoting Jackie Kennedy, Clinton reminded Americans why Donald Trump is so dangerous, saying, “war might be started not so much by big men as by the little ones… moved more by fear and pride.”
The full quote by Jackie Kennedy comes from a letter she wrote to Khrushchev on December 1, 1963:
The danger which troubled my husband was that war might be started not so much by the big men as by the little ones.
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While big men know the needs for self-control and restraint—little men are sometimes moved more by fear and pride. If only in the future the big men can continue to make the little ones sit down and talk, before they start to fight.
And that, Donald Trump, is what it feels like to have your bum kicked by two very strong women.
Little men need not apply.
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