Running The World Is Funnier Than You Think

July, 1977

"I have good news and bad news."The good news is that the Vietnam war is over. The bad news is, we lost."A mildly amusing crack, nothing special, right?Except the audience was President Gerald R. Ford, the wisecracker was White House photographer David Hume Kennerly and the scene was the headquarters of the National Security Council, where the loss of the Indochina war had finally been acknowledged.Henry Kissinger, noting that Cambodia had fallen to the Communists only two weeks b...

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