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John Greenleaf Whittier's bitter poem about Daniel Webster provides us with a fitting epitaph 172 years later for Bill Bennett's reputation:

So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn

Which once he wore!

The glory from his gray hairs gone

Forevermore!

.....

Then, pay the reverence of old days

To his dead fame;

Walk backward, with averted gaze,

And hide the shame!

I'm sorry you were taken in by him, Charlie. Some of us were lucky enough to realize that he was a charlatan from his first days at Boston University. The later revelation that he was a pathological gambler simply confirmed our suspicions about his character or lack thereof.

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