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"David L. DePauw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:34:01 EST
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Woodrow Wilson was President of the U.S. after Mark Twain had already
died...."resigned" means to have left, or quit a "position", which in this
case means a job, or a duty, and in this case, they are being facetious, and
elected simply means to have been chosen, either directly through a vote of
the people, or as in this dialogue, indirectly by someone else having left
the position to those upon whom it must fall...those left behind.
    -David DePauw

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