An exhausting theme

[L Verge]

Aside from the fact that he shifted to the Progressive Party until it died, I might have liked Beveridge for his views on big government - as cited in Wikipedia: "In the twilight of his life, he came to repudiate some of the earlier expansion of governmental power that he had championed in his earlier career. In one notable address, delivered before the Sons of the Revolution's annual dinner in June 1923, Beveridge decried the growth of the regulatory state and the proliferation of regulatory bodies, bureaus and commissions. 'America would be better off as a country and Americans happier and more prosperous as a people,' he suggested, 'if half of our Government boards, bureaus and commissions were abolished, hundreds of thousands of our Government officials, agents and employees were discharged and two-thirds of our Government regulations, restrictions and inhibitions were removed.'" That was said by Beveridge nearly 100 years ago; boy, think what he would have to say about the state of our central government now!

I also read that his two-volume bio of Lincoln was incomplete at the time of his death, and the remainder of his research was turned over to Carl Sandburg. The article implied that there was enough there for one or two more volumes. I guess Sidney is not stretching it by doing three volumes...