LEST AULD ACQUAINTANCE be forgot, we take a look back at 2018, a year that began with a blistering cold New Year’s and ended with the stock market taking more breath-taking plunges than anyone ever took skiing down the lip of the headwall in Tuckerman Ravine!
Love him or not, throughout the up-and-down year, President Trump used the aptly named bully pulpit to advance his view of the world — making him a gold mine for all the talking heads, as well late night comics.
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