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A large crystal chandelier that sold to Hudson Valley Live, a new entertainment venue in Newburgh.

Chandeliers, fireplace mantels, large doorways complete with their original doors, grandfather clocks, bathtubs, stained glass windows and full window frames are all part of the offerings at Hudson Valley House Parts in Newburgh all salvaged pieces of architectural history saved from being thrown away during the processes of remodeling old homes and making them new again.

While Reggie Young, the stores owner, knows that not everyone wants such pieces, he cant help but occasionally try to convince some people to keep them.

Sometimes we beg people not to sell us this stuff, he said. I say to people, Please dont sell this to me. You should not be getting rid of this. But its the nature of the world, that people want new.

For those who prefer to outfit their homes with pieces of history, however, Hudson Valley House Parts saves those elements, bringing them to the designers, architects and homeowners who know their worth and how to reconfigure their presence into modern spaces.

Its nothing like an average antique shop, Young said.

We specialize in oversized things like 12-foot-tall mansion doors and columns, he explained. We have a lot of large-scale stuff, which is very difficult to do because you have to move it, install it, sell it and move it again. Its difficult to do, but thats an aspect that we love.

Young developed his own taste for vintage pieces and got his start in salvaging and restoring historic architecture in a few ways, including growing up on a farm with parents who worked as restorers.

His own first foray into the field was building a restaurant on Manhattans 42nd Street in 1979, when he was an architecture student at the Pratt Institute.

I went to United House Wrecking and bought doors to use to make the paneling for the bar that was my introduction to salvage, Young said.

After years spent similarly designing and building other restaurants, he spent two decades at his restoration company specializing in brownstone and historic mortar restoration.

We did projects both in the Hudson Valley a ton of projects in Hudson before Hudson really happened and then up and down the river until the housing crash, at which point we had to go to Brooklyn because there was nothing happening upstate, Young said. We specialized in restoration of brownstones, so thats kind of my background.

Back to the Valley

Three years ago, Young decided to use his expertise to start Hudson Valley House Parts, recognizing that options were dwindling in the area for salvaged and restored house parts. During the pandemic he watched similar stores close, including Keystone in the town of Hudson and United House Wrecking in Stamford. According to Young, the latter was one of the oldest and largest salvage businesses in the area.

Newburgh, he thought, was an ideal location for the business, due both to its diverse population and historic architecture and its location.

I had worked on a building in Newburgh 20 years ago, on a preservation project, and thats how I discovered Newburgh, he recalled. I really wanted to move to Newburgh for a very long time because of the architecture, which is why people continue to come to Newburgh, actually theyre drawn to the history and architecture and incredible stock of historic buildings.

In addition, he said, Newburgh had a lot of abandoned housing stock, and a lot of buildings are being totally rehabbed.

Many of the materials also come from historic homes in Connecticut towns like Greenwich, Stamford, Darien and Norwalk, but Young also sources from connections with contractors and pickers all over the country, gaining new ones all the time.

The store has grown through the years with a decidedly local bent, helped along by the recent influx of new residents to the Valley. But the store is also taking steps to reach new customers from all over.

Young spends hours every day sourcing materials from connections in the construction industry, estate sales and other sources, delivering them to some clients who never set foot in the store, but might come across his store by way of its Instagram, which has almost 26,000 followers.

Covids changed everything because we survive now by selling to people who arent even coming into the brick-and-mortar store, Young said. Thats really how we survived, through Instagram and our website and online sales. Then in terms of people coming into the store, its people from Westchester, from everywhere that we see.

Young said his clientele fit a few main categories: homeowners working on their own restoration or remodeling projects or just looking to add some pieces; architects and designers looking for specialty pieces for professional home projects; and more niche clients like those in the film industry looking for specific period pieces, or people from across the country looking for unusual, higher-end pieces.

The uptick in filming activity in the Hudson Valley which isnt showing signs of slowing down anytime soon was a boon to the store during the pandemic, allowing it to score several sales and connections to high-profile projects with items that wouldnt be a good fit for homeowners and residential projects.

We carry a lot of period plumbing from all different periods, so recently weve been selling a lot to the show The White House Plumbers, Young said. Weve done a lot of work with the Gossip Girl set. During the pandemic they actually bought a lot of stuff from us, which kind of saved us through that period. Weve sold stuff for the sets for Mrs. Maisel.'

At home in Newburgh

Though gaining more high-profile clients over the years, Youngs pride at being a member of the Newburgh community shows through.

He said his work and the store are a way to preserve the history of the Hudson Valley, which he hopes to share with other members of the community and to show the rest of the world what the region has to offer.

Hudson Valley House Parts hosts community educational programming and resources like preservation classes and workshops, which Young reports are attended by people from all over the country, spanning an economically, racially and socially diverse group.

Young himself hosts mortar restoration classes, the next of which will take place on Oct. 30. Other local experts also contribute, like Ben Brandt of Newburgh Sash and Restorations, whose next window restoration workshop will take place Nov. 12 and 13.

Hudson Valley House Parts seems to have gained a firm footing as both a community business and one that brings the treasures of the region to those who appreciate it nationwide. Young himself is very invested in the recent changes and development of the city of Newburgh and the Hudson Valley as a whole, with many new large-scale residential and hotel projects in the works.

Its very interesting to watch all this happening, Young said, opining that Newburgh in particular offers something different than the trendiness of such towns as Hudson or Beacon.

(The city) is just too diverse to become one thing, he said. Thats what makes it, I think, so interesting to all of us who are here.

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The ancient Egyptians were carrying out sophisticated mummifications of their dead 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence which could lead to a rewriting of the history books.

The preserved body of a high-ranking nobleman called Khuwy, discovered in 2019, has been found to be far older than assumed and is, in fact, one of the oldest Egyptian mummies ever discovered. It has been dated to the Old Kingdom, proving that mummification techniques some 4,000 years ago were highly advanced.

The sophistication of the bodys mummification process and the materials used including its exceptionally fine linen dressing and high-quality resin was not thought to have been achieved until 1,000 years later.

Professor Salima Ikram, head of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and a leading expert on the history of mummification, told the Observer: If this is indeed an Old Kingdom mummy, all books about mummification and the history of the Old Kingdom will need to be revised.

She added: This would completely turn our understanding of the evolution of mummification on its head. The materials used, their origins, and the trade routes associated with them will dramatically impact our understanding of Old Kingdom Egypt.

Until now, we had thought that Old Kingdom mummification was relatively simple, with basic desiccation not always successful no removal of the brain, and only occasional removal of the internal organs. Indeed, more attention was paid to the exterior appearance of the deceased than the interior. Also, the use of resins is far more limited in the Old Kingdom mummies thus far recorded. This mummy is awash with resins and textiles and gives a completely different impression of mummification. In fact, it is more like mummies found 1,000 years later.

It is among major discoveries to be revealed in National Geographics documentary series, Lost Treasures of Egypt, starting on 7 November. It is produced by Windfall Films, and the cameras follow international archaeologists during the excavation season in Egypt. The mummification discovery will feature in episode four entitled Rise of the Mummies on 28 November.

Ikram appears in that episode with fellow archaeologist Dr Mohamed Megahed, who says of the latest discovery: If its really Khuwy, this is a breakthrough in Ancient Egyptian history.

The mummys discovery in a lavish tomb in the necropolis at Saqqara was filmed in National Geographics earlier season. The investigation into its dating and analysis emerges in the new series. Hieroglyphs revealed that it belonged to Khuwy, a relation of the royal family who lived over 4,000 years ago.

Tom Cook, the series producer for Windfall Films, said: They knew the pottery in the tomb was Old Kingdom but [Ikram] didnt think that the mummy was from [that period] because it was preserved too well. They didnt think the mummification process [then] was that advanced. So her initial reaction was: this is definitely not Old Kingdom. But over the course of the investigation she started to come round [to the idea].

Ancient embalmers bathed bodies in expensive resins from tree sap, preserving the flesh before they wrapped the corpse. This mummy is impregnated with high-quality resins and wrapped in the highest-grade of bandages.

Ikram says in the programme: Its extraordinary. The only time Ive [seen] so much of this kind of good quality linen has been in the 21st dynasty. The 21st dynasty of Egyptian Pharaohs reigned more than 1,000 years after Khuwy lived.

Carolyn Payne, National Geographics commissioning editor, said that what makes this series so unusual is that it follows a whole group of different archaeologists across a season: We did see some amazing finds.

The documentary observes: With every new body archaeologists unearth, the story of the mummies of Egypt becomes clearer.

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The official play-by-play account is cold, detached, antiseptic, cold-blooded. It feels like it should have been presented in bold-face type, or all caps, given what a seminal moment in football history it was. But it doesnt work that way in real time. So when you dig through the archives, this is what you see:

5:11. 3 & 10, NWE 19. Drew Bledsoe, right end for 8 yards (tackle by Mo Lewis). Bledsoe fumbles (forced by Lewis), ball out of bounds at NWE 27.

Twenty years, one month and one day later, we know exactly what happened in that crashing, crushing instant. We know that Bledsoe came close to dying in the ambulance later on as the result of his injury (though he somehow managed to play one more series before being pulled from the game), and that doctors told him if hed simply gone home that night and fallen asleep, he might well never have woken up again.

We know that the backup quarterback who replaced him for the Patriots final drive that day at old Foxboro Stadium, Tom Brady, actually threw a little scare into the Jets, who were leading 10-3 in what had been a brutal rock-fight of a game. Brady completed six of his first seven pass attempts, beginning at his own 26, capped by a 21-yarder to David Patten that set the Pats up first-and-10 at the Jets 29 with 14 seconds to go.

Brady spiked the ball. Then he targeted Charles Johnson, Patten and Johnson again, none of them connecting. The Jets survived and moved to 1-1 on the season. New England fell to 0-2, 5-13 under their suddenly hot-seated coach, Bill Belichick.

Twenty years, one month, and one day later, the Jets will return to Foxborough, Mass., to commemorate one of two defining moments in franchise history. The first one was a happy one: Jan. 12, 1969, a 16-7 win in Super Bowl III.

This one not so much.

Maybe the laws of inertia would have taken over even if Lewis hadnt knocked Bledsoe into the hospital. There has long been a narrative that Belichick was itchy to see what he had in Brady, whom hed taken with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft. And given the prism of what has happened since, its easy to fall in line with that.

Except in reality, the Belichick who walked off the field Sept. 23, 2001, bears zero resemblance to the cast-in-stone immortal who now prowls and scowls on the sidelines at Gillette Stadium, the still-pristine football palace that stands near the old footprint of the old stadium. He was 5-13 as a Patriots coach, 41-57 overall,including five mostly pedestrian years in Cleveland.

He was already grossly unpopular among Patriots fans, the most prominent of that group being Robert Kraft, who happened to own the team and happened to have signed Bledsoe to a 10-year, $103 million contract the previous March. That was the richest deal in NFL history. And Kraft loved Bledsoe like a son.

You think he wouldve let a lame-duck coach bench his healthy son?

It was that moment that changed everything, the moment Lewis leveled Bledsoe, the moment that allowed Brady a window of opportunity that he transformed into an 11-5 record that year and a Super Bowl title and another (and another, and another, and another, and another).

The Jets had won their first post-merger division title just three years before. They won another in 2002. They are still waiting to add No. 3. They have not been completely shut out by the Patriots in the 20 years, one month and one day since that collision, theyve made two AFC Championship games, one by defeating the Pats in New England in the playoffs.

But mostly it has been an endless slog of mediocre football (interspersed with some truly deplorable football) with a huge side dish of Patriots Envy, much of it going back to Belichicks famous departure from the franchise and infamous HC of the NYJ resignation note. And that will always be part of it.

Still, before Sept. 23, 2001, it looked as if that would merely be a footnote. Twenty years, one month and one day later, as the Jets make their latest trip to Foxborough for Sundays rematch with the Pats, we know different.

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Claude A. Clegg III's book"The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama" accomplishes various things. Foremost among them,it serves as an antidote to Donald Trump's gaslighting. Clegg, a history professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, first explores how Barack Obama's presidency was experienced by the Black community, an issue central to any accountof the Obama era. In addition, Clegg punctures many of the myths about Obama's administration that have been endlessly repeated by Trump and hisright-wing allies.

When Obama took office in 2009, America was teetering on the verge of economic collapse. The Illinois Democrat'spolicies not only prevented another Great Depression, but saved multiple industries and put the country on a path to long-term prosperity. Trump inherited thateconomy and falsely claimed credit for it, over and over again, during his single term in office. With the unwitting complicity of the media, which obsessedover his every move, Trump then tried to erase Obama's other achievements both as policies and from the public's memory so they would either disappear forever or, if they happened to be popular, get attributed to him. Obama's recordon issues from immigration to foreign policyhas eitherbeendownplayed or revised. His presidency was virtually scandal-free, while Trump's resulted in two impeachmentsfor highly justifiable reasons,a fact no one bothers to mention. This kind of gaslighting can only succeed when thereis a narrative void, one which malicious actors operating in bad faith can takelicense to fill with self-serving revisionism.

Clegg's book is a comprehensive rebuttal to those efforts, and it comes not a moment too soon. While Obama was certainly not a perfect president, he was more successful at pushing through liberal policies than any president of the previoushalf-century. His election in 2008 and subsequent success at governing appeared to forgea viable long-term political coalition, forcing the far right to resort to literal fascist techniques in order to short-circuitan era of likely Democratic dominance. If the story of the early 21st century is going to be told correctly, Obama'sleadership needs to be remembered. He came close enough to dashing the dreams of economic and social reactionaries that theyelected a sub-Paris Hiltonreality TV startrafficking indemonstrable liesas a panicked last effort to alter the course of history.

In so manywords:Obamasucceeded, if not entirely in the way he had hoped. If liberals wantto again capturepolitical momentum, they can't allow the lessons of his presidency to be lost and distorted. I spoke to Clegg recently about his book and the Obama legacy.

This interview has been edited for length, clarity and context.

You talk about making sure that the history of the recent past is understood,because right-wing misinformation might otherwisefill that void. What lies are being told about Obama's presidency?What specific myths do you see being perpetuated that need to be debunked?

There are several.We could start with the original sin of birtherism that is, that this guy was not even born hereand thus was notlegitimate.. Of course, this gave us the rise of Donald Trump within the Republican Party.His ascendancy was based onthat lie. Even though Trump in 2016, right before the election, had this press conference and said, "Oh, I don't believe in this anymore,"hewas still peddling the whole notion that it was illegitimate to have a Black president in the first place. There is a philosophy in the Republican Partytied very closely to the whole idea that it is illegitimate to have a Black president, and that Barack Obamahad no business being in the White House at all.

That's one. Then there is the notion that once Trump comes into office, he can more or less take credit for all the good things that were happening in the economy creating jobs and employment going down and so forth which wasa trend of the Obama presidency, and a trend that was in play long before Donald Trump declared that he was running for office [in 2015], and certainly before he assumedoffice [in 2017]. This notion of a "Trump economy," which was his doing as opposed to this being years in the making over the course of the Obama years,would bethe other Big LiethatTrumppeddles.

There are several others. Immigration is another one, the idea of the Obama administration just having open borders until Trump showed up and planned to build his wall. Of course, we know that Obama was criticized as being the "deporter-in-chief" while he was in the presidency. Hedeported hundreds of thousands of people over thecourse ofhis presidency!As you stated in one of your articles,the immigration issue was never satisfactorily resolved byeither Trump or Obama, but it was not the casethat the Democrats had anopen border whereanyone could come in, and you needed to have Trumpto come in and build a wall and deport people and put them in cages.

Obama was actually harder on the immigration issuethan many in his coalition would have liked. Of course, there isDACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], whichsoftens some of the rougher edges of his immigration policy, but there is a myththatBarack Obama was soft on immigration. Actually he enforced the lawin ways that many in his own coalition saw as problematic.His thinkingwas that if he was enforcing the law, Republicans would see it and say, "You know, this guy is not soft on immigration. Maybe we can make a deal with himand so forth."But as you know, the Republican Party was trending more and more towarda very hardcore nativismthat made any kind of deal on immigration impossible.

The zone is flooded with allthis misinformation and disinformation about Obama during the course ofthe Trump presidency. I think thatmakes it necessary for historians to reallyget on record with the fact pattern of his presidency.

You already know that I rank Obama very highly among presidents. How do you feel his presidency should be ranked? What would you say were the main narratives of his administration, in terms of his legacy?

I think history is going to be kind to him, and historians are going to be unfavorable to Trump overall. It's funny:People tend not to notice good administration or good management, but they really notice bad management andbad leadership. If you save the country from another Great Depression with the stimulus package,and save the automobile industryand other measures, people don't give you a lot of credit for that. They don't give you a lot of credit for what you prevented from happening, as opposed to giving you the blame if thebad thing actually does happen. I think he has to be given credit along withthose who voted in favor of it in the Congress for the stimulus package, which was around $800 billion. We don't talk in hundredsof billions of dollars anymore, we talk trillions, but $800 billion was a lot of money in 2009. He was able to get that through the Congress. It saved millionsof jobs in the public and private sector. It fortified the social safety netin regard tokeeping public school teachers working, in regard to investments in cleanenergy, in regardto investments in infrastructure.

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It was probably still too small, and it made the countrysort of have to crawlout of the Great Recession, but it was a big deal in regard to keeping the worst of the worst from happening. Itslowed downsome of the home foreclosures.It saved the banks, as noxious as that was to a lot of people.I think it was a necessary thing to savethe banking industry and themortgage loan industry and so forth, even though these guys weresome of the rogues that led us down the path of economic crash in the first place. Of course, the automobile industryhas a lot of other industries adjacent to it,so it's not just the car industry:it's the glass industry, it's the metal industry, the electronics industryand all the other industries that poolinto automobiles. This crisis started during the [George W.]Bush administration, and he did set the ball rolling in regard to an auto bailout during his administration, but it cameto fruition during the Obama administration.

There were several other thingsthat came out of this administration that were positive. There was, of course, capturing and killing Osama bin Laden. There was thewinding down of the Iraq war and some winding down of the Afghanistan war. Obama was a wartime president for the entirety of his years. Bush had been before him, and Trump was as well. Buthe did wind down those wars.

Most of the missed opportunities had to do with him having an unwilling Congress. As you know, they lost the House in 2010and the Senate in 2014. In terms of anything infrastructure, clean energy,a jobs bill,ofcourseallthose things were obstructed. Criminal justice reform, immigration. The missed opportunities and shortcomings of his administration have a lot to do with just having a Republican Congress that waseither outright uncooperative in the House or filibustering everything in the Senate.Even when it came tothe basics of governance, like lifting the debt ceiling so you can pay your bills, there was a lack of cooperation on that scoreto the point that we almost defaulted.

The Affordable Care Act has been more durable than many of us thought it would be. Itsurvived some challenges from the Supreme Court and the Trump administration and so forth. Itis more or less a middle ground between our previous system and a system that may not be single payer, but will approacha systemmore robust than anything that Obama was able to put in place. Maybe a public option ison the table. I don't know about Medicare for All, but I think he set into motionthis idea that the government has an obligation to provide health care and make it accessible to people in the richest country in the world. I think that idea, that health care is a right, has beensort of naturalized by the Obama administration. I thinkan administration in the wake of apandemic is going to push that even further.

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I want todiscuss Joe Biden for a moment because it occurs to me that Biden, like Trump, could never have become president without Obama, but fordifferent reasons. Biden is to Obama what George Bush seniorwas to Ronald Reagan,in that he was the clear successor to apolitical brand. If Biden had not been Obama's vice president, it's absurd to think he would have been nominated in 2020. He would have been anelderly former senator from a moderate state with a moderate record. People talk a lot about how Trump needed Obama to become president, but that's just as much true of Biden,if not more so. I'm curious how you feel about Biden's presidency, as part of the larger Obama story.

Great question!I remember during the campaign that Biden said that he wasan "Obama-Biden Democrat,"which is an interestingcharacterization.It's a very clearappeal to Black voters and the Obama coalition young voters, urban votersand so forth.I think that you're exactly right about that, that he neededObama's brand. Honestly, without it he looks likeall the other people who are running, but even less interestingbecause he's very much a creature of Washington. This is a guy in his late 70s. He'd be the oldest person ever elected. This is his third run for the office. Hewould almost look a bit pathetic, actually, to a lot of people, but for the fact he was aloyaland capable vice president under the presidency of Barack Obama.Obama served for two terms and was the last two-term Democratic president who had convincing margins in the House,in the popular vote and in the Electoral College vote.

At the same time, the Trump presidencywas so out there, in regard to his use and abuse of the office the inside dealing, the nepotism, the Ukraine phone call, the Russian taint that was all over his presidency from 2016 on. So the promise of Biden was also, sort of, "We're going back to the Obama presidency" as you were saying, the third term butI think even further than that,the promise of stability. What's more stable than this guy who's been in the Senate for 20 or 30 years, and thenwas the vice president for eight years?So going back to a certain sort of assumed stability and assumed competencethat Bidenseemed to promise, and that people who were exhausted by the Trump presidencyfeltthey needed.

I think we can't understand Biden's election without the pandemic as well. I think that the country facing a Depression-level unemployment and economic catastrophe, a country that was sicker and poorer than it had been inmany decades, provided an opening.I don't know if Trump is beatable without it.

The way I look at the 2020 election and I'm curious if you agree with me ispretty straightforward. It starts with the fact that Trump made it clear from before the 2016 electionthat he wouldnever accept an electionunless he is the winner. So everything that happened after Election Day was completely predictable, and it didn't matter which Democrat beat him.If Trump lost, he was going to do what he did. It didn't matter who he lost to.

I think in hindsight that's probably true. We couldn't haveactually seen that in 2016.I think if he had lost to Hillary Clinton, we could have actually seen that movie four years earlier. He was heading in that direction, that he could not lose, and if he did lose it was tainted. I don't know if he would have been able to push this as far in 2016, becausein 2020 he had the machinery of the executive branch.

In terms of why Biden won,I think it boils down to several very basic dynamics. The Democratic Party establishment was threatened by Bernie Sanders. Once he started doing well, they were going to unite behind a"moderate" alternative. Biden had tremendous advantages because of his association with Barack Obama's brand, so he won primaries and immediately emerged as the"logical" alternative. So they united behind him and he stopped Sanders. And I completely agree, I think Trumphad the incumbency advantageand had been able to suppress votes through various legislation. Hewould have been reelected withoutCOVID-19.

I thinkthat's a veryreasonable way of looking at things. I think thepandemic is vital to the collapse of Trump's reelection hopes and the emergence of a possible Democratic candidate winning, in this case being Biden. I think the pandemic and the protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and so forth, and mobilizing those folks, whether in the South Carolina primary or getting folks to come out and vote in Novemberon the promise thatnot only do you have Obama's guy,but he's saying the right sorts of things to Black voters. Biden says things that Obama himself couldn't get away with saying.I can remember him saying, "The Black community has always had my back and I'm going to have their back." Obama would never say anything like that because of the fearofhow white voters would seeit. He was allergic to the idea thathe might be construed as having a black agenda, or there might be some inside track for AfricanAmericans in his presidency. Headvocated these broad-brush race-neutralpolicies like the Affordable Care Act, raising Pell grants, saving the automobile industry and so forth. He would have never gone to the places that Bidenhas gone to, at least rhetorically, in regard to sayinghe's going tofix the police, and he's going to have the back of African-American voters, and he's going to do these special things forhistorically Black colleges and universities.

I think that, foundationally, you're right in regard to the basic part of the story that without the pandemic,we don't have the collapse of Trump's re-election prospects andBiden being an acceptable choice.I think you're right about Sanders too, insofaras he's the guy that you date, but not the guy that you marry. And I thinkthe Democratic electorate came to that realization in the midst of the pandemic and right beforethe South Carolina primary.At the same time, I thinkBiden was making the right kinds of messaging,especially to the African-American electorate. He was making moves and making commitments that were beyond Obama, really. It'sfunny. He is even furtherleftward, in regard to his embrace ofnot-quite-a-Bernie-Sanders-level ofbig government. It is certainly far beyond whereBarack Obama would have gone in regard to thechild care expenditure, health care, the stimulus packages and so forth.I think a lot of people rate him as acentrist, but he's a bit more left of center. And I think he was pushed a bit more leftby people like Bernie Sanders and so forth, in ways we didn't see Obama being pushed.

Obama,of course, is in a different time. I think Bidenhas turned out to be a bit more than just a third term of Barack Obama, probably not for reasons that he hoped.I think the politics have changed beneath his feet.

In the beginning of your book, you write that you want to discuss how Obama engaged "the aspirations, struggles and disappointments of his most loyal constituency, and how representative segments of Black America engaged, experienced, and interpreted his historic presidency." Which specific examplesdo you consider most salient?

There areseveral things that come to mind. One of the core themes of the book ishis relationship with African Americans, and one of the main arguments of the book is just how diverse "Black America" is. It really comes out during the Obama administration, even though he was, on average, somewhere around 89% job approval among African Americans for the duration of his presidency.(He had 95% of the Black vote in 2008 and 93% in 2012.) There was an array of reactions, experiences andimaginings of the Obama presidency from various coresof the Black community during thattime.

One of the tensions that really showed the diversity of Black opinion of him is this notion of what he owed, as thefirst Black president, to the larger Black community.There were those who would argue, "Well, this guy got 95%of the black vote in 2008, he owesyou.You do something for me and I'll do something for you." Even beyond that, in the face of this economic catastrophe, AfricanAmericans are atthe bottom of it. They suffered the highest poverty rates. They suffered the highest unemployment rates. They have suffered the highest home foreclosure rates. You just go across the board with every metric and statistic. And so the idea was even beyond Obamagetting such a high share of that vote, because they're at the bottom of this economic crisis, he had a moral obligation and the country had a moralobligation to address this most vulnerable group.

So there are those in academia, there are those in the clergy, there are those in the Congressional Black Caucusand others who saythatpolitically, we have a moral obligation to these folks who weathered the Great Recession so poorly.Obama's thinking was thatthestore of white guilt is more or less exhausted in this country,and the argument aboutcorrecting historical racism,historical injustice, systemic injusticeand so forth doesn't sell very well anymore, if it ever did. Soa person who is trying to get a second term, to get re-elected, cannot target remedies towards one particular group, no matter how deserving, no matter how much they've suffered, no matter about argumentsabout historical injustice and discrimination and ongoingsystemicracism and so forth.That just doesn't fly with the majority of the electorate, which is white.

Most of the folks who voted for Obama were white Americans, white voters. So instead oftargeted remedies that were designed to address the particular situation among AfricanAmericans, he instead put in place or advocated for broad-brush policies that on their face were race-neutral. But if you looked under the hood,these universalist policies promisedadditional or extra or disproportionate benefits to the most vulnerable, including African Americans. I think the Affordable Care Act is the quintessential example of that,in which you have a bill that on its face is race-neutral. Wasn't it just trying to get everyone to buy health insurance? There aremany people who itcould cover, and also it expandedMedicaid. But those who benefited most from the expansion of Medicaid andfrom the subsidies wereAfricanAmericans, Hispanics, poor people, working-class peopleand so forth.

Look at expanding Pell Grants.You're helping all students who needed this particular government assistance to afford college. Again, ifyou look under the hood, it's AfricanAmericans and others, working-class people, poor people, who are benefiting from Pell Grants disproportionately. Sothat was hiscounterargument to this notion of targeted remedies. So, yeah, the way AfricanAmericans experience this is asongoing tension over these targeted policies that folks in the Congressional Black Caucus and black academicsand others are saying, "He's not doing enough."And then Obama himself is saying, "I'm the president for the entire United States. And the re-electionmath does not work if in the midst of this economic crisis I'm viewed as picking and choosing winners and losers,especially if I'm picking and choosing winners among my own group. That just doesn't work."

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Something about birds makes them a perfect fit with Halloweens scary vibe. Think Edgar Allan Poes classic The Raven and Alfred Hitchcocks chilling The Birds.

Nearly 50 years ago this fall, a small town had a huge problem on its hands, thanks to the winged critters. This is what happened when the blackbirds called on Kentucky.

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is a slice of classic Americana. Located a handful of miles above the Tennessee state line, a 152-year-old courthouse sits downtown with quaint little shops and stores, stately churches, and lovely old houses scattered nearby. Its the kind of place folks are happy to call home.

Unfortunately, in the mid-1970s unwanted visitors decided to call it home, too.

Sometime in late October 1974, the skies around Hoptown (as the locals affectionately call it) grew dark. Not with clouds, but with birds. Blackbirds, to be specific. With large numbers of starlings and a healthy number of grackles and cowbirds along for good measure. When the sun went down each evening an estimated 5 million to 7 million of them filled bare tree limbs, the air, and well, basically any place they chose.

But this was no awe-inspiring natural wonder. Birds freely potty whenever and wherever they want. Hopkinsville suddenly found itself covered in millions of pounds of droppings. That created a serious health hazard. The invaders spent their days feasting on the grain farmers put out to feed their cattle. And that wasnt the worst of it.

The birds eventually settled on a 30-acre clump of pine trees for their base of operations. Which put them in direct conflict with the U.S. Army, whose 101st Airborne Division was headquartered at the nearby sprawling Fort Campbell. Now plane and helicopter pilots had to contend with a serious flying threat.

Fed-up farmers and local citizens grabbed shotguns and blasted away at the feathered pests, but to little effect. Hopkinsvilles mayor called it a pestilence and a scourge. He wasnt exaggerating. Veterinarians cautioned about gastroenteritis, which can kill infant pigs, while doctors warned humans to safeguard against histoplasmosis, an airborne disease that damages the lungs.

If all this sounds eerily reminiscent of The Birds, it was. Parents wouldnt let their children play outdoors. They couldnt anyway; their slides and swings were covered in white droppings. Just like the sidewalks, driveways, and car windshields.

By February, the birds had caused an estimated $2.6 million in damage (nearly $15 million in 2021 dollars). Desperate local officials issued an emergency SOS, and Uncle Sam responded. In early 1975, planes and choppers prepared to take off from Fort Campbell and douse the blackbirds and their buddies with Tergitol S-9, a biodegradable detergent that removes the protective oil that helps keeps them warm from their feathers.

Then, just when a strategy was in place to counter the threat, two new characters entered the drama.

First, bureaucrats from the federal Council on Environmental Quality insisted the Army come up with an impact statement. That took several weeks and $20,000 (about $102,000 today) in time and paperwork. Then environmentalists got in on the act. The New York-based groups Society for Animal Rights and Citizens for Animals sued, seeking to stop what they called a form of mass euthanasia. (Hopkinsvilles mayor semi-seriously considered seeking a retaliatory injunction to prohibit Big Apple residents from killing stray rats.)

Nature eventually solved the problem with the calendar. When the weather warmed up in spring, the birds took off for greener pastures.

There was a similar episode in 2013 when millions of unwelcome fowl again showed up and caused yet another round of months-long misery.

They say birds of a feather flock together, and folks in Hopkinsville can attest to the sayings accuracy. And then some. With leaves starting to fall off trees and temperatures beginning to grow nippy at night, you cant blame them for keeping a nervous eye on the sky and their fingers crossed that the blackbirds dont come calling again this year.

To borrow from Poe, Nevermore.

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Todays Highlight in History:

On Oct. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over White House tape recordings subpoenaed by the Watergate special prosecutor to Judge John J. Sirica.

On this date:

In 1707, the first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held its first meeting.

In 1864, forces led by Union Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis repelled Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Prices army in the Civil War Battle of Westport in Missouri.

In 1915, tens of thousands of women paraded up Fifth Avenue in New York City, demanding the right to vote.

In 1944, the World War II Battle of Leyte (LAY-tee) Gulf began, resulting in a major Allied victory against Japanese forces.

In 1956, a student-sparked revolt against Hungarys Communist rule began; as the revolution spread, Soviet forces started entering the country, and the uprising was put down within weeks.

In 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon; a near-simultaneous attack on French forces killed 58 paratroopers.

In 1987, the U.S. Senate rejected, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.

In 1989, 23 people were killed in an explosion at Phillips Petroleum Co.s chemical complex in Pasadena, Texas.

In 2001, the nations anthrax scare hit the White House with the discovery of a small concentration of spores at an offsite mail processing center.

In 2009, President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect non-infected patients.

In 2012, during a debate with Democratic rival Joe Donnelly, Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock said that when a woman becomes pregnant during rape, it is something that God intended to happen. (Other Republican candidates moved to distance themselves from Mourdock, who went on to lose the November election to Donnelly.)

In 2014, officials announced that an emergency room doctor whod recently returned to New York City after treating Ebola patients in West Africa tested positive for the virus, becoming the first case in the city and the fourth in the nation. (Dr. Craig Spencer later recovered.)

Ten years ago: Libyas interim rulers declared the country liberated, formally marking the end of Moammar Gadhafis 42-year tyranny. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey, killing some 600 people.

Five years ago: A tour bus returning home to Los Angeles from a casino trip plowed into the back of a slow-moving semi-truck on a California highway, killing 13 people. Bill Murray received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Former student radical turned California lawmaker Tom Hayden, 76, died in Santa Monica, California.

One year ago: Drugmakers AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson announced the resumption of U.S. testing of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates; each had stopped its testing after a study volunteer developed a serious health issue, requiring a review of safety data. France surpassed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, becoming the second country in Western Europe (after Spain) to reach the mark. President Donald Trump announced that Sudan would start to normalize ties with Israel, making it the third Arab state to do so as part of U.S.-brokered deals in the run-up to Election Day. Texas country singer and songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, who wrote the pop song Mr. Bojangles, died of cancer at age 78.

Todays Birthdays: Movie director Philip Kaufman is 85. Soccer great Pele (pay-lay) is 81. R&B singer Barbara Ann Hawkins (The Dixie Cups) is 78. Former ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross is 73. Actor Michael Rupert is 70. Movie director Ang Lee is 67. Jazz singer Dianne Reeves is 65. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 65. Community activist Martin Luther King III is 64. Movie director Sam Raimi is 62.

Parodist Weird Al Yankovic is 62. Rock musician Robert Trujillo (Metallica) is 57. Christian/jazz singer David Thomas (Take 6) is 55. Rock musician Brian Nevin (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) is 55. Actor Jon Huertas is 52. Movie director Chris Weitz is 52. CNN medical reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta is 52. Bluegrass musician Eric Gibson (The Gibson Brothers) is 51. Country singer Jimmy Wayne is 49. Actor Vivian Bang is 48. Rock musician Eric Bass (Shinedown) is 47. TV personality and host Cat Deeley is 45. Actor Ryan Reynolds is 45. Actor Saycon Sengbloh is 44. Rock singer Matthew Shultz (Cage the Elephant) is 38. TV personality Meghan McCain is 37. R&B singer Miguel is 36. Actor Masiela Lusha (MAH-see-el-la loo-SHA) is 36. Actor Emilia Clarke is 35. Actor Briana Evigan is 35. Actor Inbar Lavi is 35. Actor Jessica Stroup is 35. Neo-soul musician Allen Branstetter (St. Paul & the Broken Bones) is 31. Actor Taylor Spreitler is 28. Actor Margaret Qualley is 27. Actor Amandla Stenberg is 23.

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Both the temperature and the humidity hit the 100 mark in June 1964 at the final round of the U.S. Open golf championship held at the Congressional Country Club. The extreme conditions tested the mettle of a man.

Ken Venturi had worked his way up through the qualifying tournaments to even be allowed to play that day. Kathy Chenault writing in 2011 summarized, Venturi had been a top American golfer in the 1950s, but he had lost his competitive edge by 1964. When he began those final 36 holes at Congressional, he was trailing Tommy Jacobsby six strokes and Arnold Palmerby five. But by late in the final round, hed taken the lead. He knew he could blow it and become just another hard-luck guy who fell short of his defining moment at the U.S. Open. Or, he could overcome the elements and display the kind of courage that would immortalize him at a tournament known for high-pressure showdowns. Nearly a half-century later, spectators who were there that Saturday still talk about Venturis ordeal.

Chenault continued, Venturi was an amazing sight that day, too, at least in the beginning. Down by six strokes, he scorched the first nine, making the turn at 30five under par. The temperature kept climbing. Venturi ignored it. He birdied 12 to go to six under for the round. It got warmer. Venturi focused only on playing, forgetting to drink anything…. Then it caught up to him on the 17th hole.

Some accounts say the temperature reached 108. He finished the first round two shots out of the lead, and collapsed. Prostrate from heat exhaustion he was carried to the clubhouse where a physician advised him that playing on could prove fatal. After iced tea and salt tablets, with sopping wet ice-cold towels draped around his neck, Venturi persisted in going out for the afternoon round. Years later he would recount that I went back to concentrating on what I had to do.

Venturi had been the most promising of amateurs growing up in San Francisco, despite an extreme stutter that caused his family to worry if he would ever speak. He retreated into the game and endless practice, winning the California State Amateur Championship in 1951 and 1956. In the interim he served his country. Stationed in Germany, he was given permission by the commanding general to accept the invitation to play as an amateur at the Masters. After leading in each of the first three rounds, he lost by a single stroke. To this day no amateur has ever won.

Venturi turned pro at the end of 1956 and again came close to winning the Masters in 1958 and 1960 but was bested by Arnold Palmer.But by the early 1960s he was struggling.

Chenault summarized, The onetime brash phenom from San Francisco had fallen into a maelstrom of marital discord, financial difficulties and a long slump that had him questioning whether he belonged on the tour anymore. Hed once performed golf wizardry with ease, boldly taking on legends of the sport such as Byron Nelson and Ben Hoganand holding his own even as an amateur. After he turned professional, his popularity soared. He socialized with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatraand other golf-loving celebrities. By 1960, other pros described him as the man to beat…then his game inexplicably fell apart. Chenault writes he wasnt just losing, he had lost his way.

Golf writers called him a has-been. On that June day in 1964 his character and resiliency would prove them wrong. He was visibly weak, plodding through the course. Jacobs and Palmer wilted in the heat. He caught them on the ninth hole and won by four strokes in the end, securing his place in history.

But Venturi still had troubles. His marriage was disintegrating, he suffered muscle damage in a car accident that plagued him, and on a February day in Palm Springs in 1962 he was playing in the pro-amateur tournament he leaned over to pick his ball up out of the cup when something snapped in his spine creating unrelenting pain. He had carpal tunnel syndrome and the barbaric operation he underwent left him unable to grip a club.

Venturi and his friend Frank Sinatra understood struggle. Sinatra, had once been idolized then ignored by thousands of teenage fans, had reinvented himself as a movie star. Sinatra released an album in 1964 that included the tune, Heres to the Losers. The lyrics of the tune make a plea, Here's the last toast of the evening, here's to those who still believe/ All the losers will be winners, all the givers shall receive/ Here's to trouble-free tomorrows, may your sorrows all be small/ Here's to the losers, Bless them all!

Both Sinatra and Venturi would triumph in the desert creating a blessed life for themselves here.

Venturi moved permanently to Palm Springs with his two boys in 1971. Their house in Deep Well wasnt yet finished so they moved in with Sinatra in Rancho Mirage. Sinatra was godfather to Venturis son Tim, who recalls the most joyous time. Singing songs around the piano played by Jimmy Van Heusen, with Jilly Rizzo and Frankie Vale; playing cards with Bing Crosby; or a dinner party with Dean Martin, Henry Kissinger, Liza Minnelli, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford; driving around town in some pretty fabulous cars, with license plates like FAS 1, for Francis Albert Sinatra, FAS 2,3,4, etc.

Venturi and Sinatra were the best of friends. Sinatra trusted him completely. Tim illustrates his fathers character and sense of propriety with a story about how Sinatra wanted to give his godson an Italian Ghia (not to be confused with a Karmann Ghia), for his 16th birthday. The elder Venturi forbade it (the car is now worth millions).

Tim says Venturi and Sinatra would be out on the town at Rubys Dunes, Don the Beachcomber, Sorrentinos, Pal Joeys and Lord Fletchers. Tim Venturi recalls once when he was about 14 years old, Sinatra and Jilly Rizzo showed up at the Deep Well house and said they were taking Venturi out for a bit. Three days later Venturi returned home having been whisked away to New York for some fun, perhaps at Sinatras hangout Toots Shors.

Reinventing himself, Venturi became the golf pro at Mission Hills and in 1972 he was invited to become a commentator on CBS television by producer Frank Chirkinian. Overcoming his stutter, Venturi delighted fans all over the globe explaining the drama unfolding during tournaments, and in the process created a 35-year-long career for himself. Venturi would go on to raise millions of dollars for a variety of good causes and is one of the most respected figures in golf.

Writing for Sports Illustrated after Venturis win at the Open Alfred Wright noted, …it was as if everyone suddenly wanted to drive an Edsel instead of a Cadillac…It was as if they took all the guys down on Skid Row and put them in charge of the big banks. It was a day for losers everywhere, because, for the best part of three years now, Ken Venturi has been a loser's loser. Well, heres to the losers, bless them all!

Tracy Conrad is president of the Palm Springs Historical Society. The Thanks for the Memories column appears Sundays in The Desert Sun. Write to her atpshstracy@gmail.com

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Cleveland Browns quarterback Otto Graham dominated professional football in the pre-Super Bowl era. From 1946-55, "Automatic Otto" led the Browns to 10 straight championship gamesan achievement no other player in the sport can match. Starting every Browns game during that time frame, Graham won seven titlesa record unmatched for a professional quarterback until 2021 by Tom Brady.

Yet the player who helped lay the foundation for the NFL prior to its explosion in popularity in the 1960s often is overlooked.

He won at the highest level any way you cut it, says Jon Kendle,Pro Football Hall of Fame director of archives and football information. I think he stacks up extremely well to any of the great quarterbacks throughout history and the great quarterbacks of today.

Under Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown, Cleveland deployed cutting-edge preparation methods and schematic concepts. Among the legendary coach's many innovations were game film and playbooks. But to lead the Browns' high-powered offense, Brown needed a gifted quarterback such as Graham.

[Graham] helped glamorize the sport by winning championships and elevating the role of quarterback as the NFL entered the television era, former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue said in 2003.

Otto Graham won seven titles as Cleveland Browns quarterback and appeared in 10 championship games.

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Offered no college football scholarships, Graham played basketball at Northwestern. But Wildcats football coach Pappy Waldorf was so impressed by Graham's play at an intramural football game that he invited him to join his team.

A single-wing tailback at Northwestern, the 6-foot-1 Graham impressed Brown by leading the Wildcats to two upset wins over the future Cleveland leaders Ohio State teams. Shortly after he became coach of the Browns, then in the All-America Football Conference, the fledgling rival of the NFL, Brown lured Graham from the National Basketball Leagues Rochester Royals. In Graham's lone season in the NBL, the Royals won the title.

In 1946, the Graham-led Browns won their first AAFC championship by beating the New York Yankees, who ran the antiquated single-wing offense. Clevelands offense ran wild in the top-heavy AAFC, which featured numerous ex-college all-stars and 15 future Pro Football Hall of Famers but did not impress NFL bigwigs.

Propelled by Graham, Cleveland compiled a 52-4-3 record in the AAFC, winning all four league titles. The Browns were undefeated in 1948, finishing 15-0 after a 49-7 championship game victory. Two days before the Browns claimed their fourth championship, however, the league dissolved. In December 1949, the NFL absorbed the Browns and two other AAFC franchises.

After Philadelphia won its second straight NFL title that season, Eagles coach Greasy Neale proclaimed his team the best assembled and wondered, Who is there to beat us? Washington owner George Preston Marshall went further, remarking the worst NFL team could beat the best AAFC outfit.

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This backdrop gave the 1950 Browns a historic validation opportunity. In the season opener against the Eagles, dubbed the World Series of Football," Cleveland routed Philadelphia, 35-10. Graham passed for 346 yards, a dizzying figure in an era when prolific passing attacks were not the norm.

Three months later, the Browns beat Clevelands former team, the offensive powerhouse Los Angeles Rams, for the championship. In the 30-28 win, Graham threw for four touchdowns and piloted a fourth-quarter comeback. But that Christmas Eve classic wasn't nationally televised, thus limiting the lasting appeal of the Browns crowning achievement.In the modern era of major professional sports (NFL, NBA, NHL, Major League Baseball), the Browns are the only team to join a league and win a title in its first season.

Displaying what the Los Angeles Daily News described as vengeful glee, Cleveland conquered a league that mocked it.In their first six seasons in the NFL, the Browns won 82 percent of their games and Graham played in six title gamesno other quarterback in league history has played in a championship game more than four times in a six-season span.

Otto Grahams their team, New York Giants coach Steve Owen said of the Browns in 1953. Graham is the field leader; he engineers their attack downfield. He is uncanny in his passing and running calls.

Otto Graham briefly became an "insurance man" following the 1954 NFL season.

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In 1951, the Browns lost to the Rams in a championship game rematch. And, in 1953, a rugged Detroit Lions team that featured seven future Hall of Famers beat the Browns for a second straight year, extending Clevelands streak of title game losses to three. The defeats ratcheted the pressure on Graham."Emotionally, I was so far down in the dumps those three years," he later said. "I was the quarterback. I was the leader. It was all my fault."

Not long after a self-admitted lousy 1953 title game, a 17-16 Lions win, Graham announced he would retire following the 1954 season. The ensuing season changed his career trajectory.

The Browns exorcised their Lions demons in 1954, winning the second-most lopsided championship game in NFL historya 56-10 mashing that featured nine Detroit turnovers. In the rout, Graham threw for three touchdowns and ran for threethe only player in league history to do soin a playoff game.

As late as June 1955, Graham said he was done with football and would not pull a Ted Williams, a reference to the Boston Red Sox's star who came out of retirement that year.Instead, he referred to himself as Otto Graham, insurance man. The 33-year-old passer was prepared to venture into a then-more lucrative field, but he left a comeback door open, notifying Brown he would unretire if Clevelands quarterback situation proved unsatisfactory. Brown came calling and agreed to bump Grahams salary to an NFL-high $25,000.

The result: a third NFL MVP award, a seventh championship and status as the quarterback who set a remarkable standard of excellence. After the Browns' 38-14 win against Los Angeles in the 1955 championship game, first-year Rams coach Sid Gillman said Graham had a perfect day. The crowd in Los Angeles apparently agreed, sending him into retirement for good with a standing ovation.

Browns innovations, which also included scouting reports and full-time assistant coaches, aided Graham. But Graham, who died in 2003, was the clear-cut top quarterback during a period in which the near-free rein afforded to pass rushers and secondaries made passers jobs harder.

Graham's achievements dwarfed Hall of Fame contemporaries Norm Van Brocklin and Bobby Layne, also star quarterbacks.He earned four All-Pro honors to their combined one during his NFL career.In his 1953 MVP season, Graham lapped peers in completion percentage (64.7) and yards per pass (10.6).

Graham, nicknamed "Automatic Otto" for his precision passing, sits first in professional football in career yards per attempt at 9.0.The ex-running backs 44 rushing touchdowns also stood as the professional football quarterback record for 61 years.

After Graham's retirement in 1956, the Browns declined sharply, finishing 5-7 and out of the playoffs. The organization's last championship came in 1964.

"The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes," said Brown, who died in 1991, long before Peyton Manning and Brady joined the NFL. "By that standard, Otto Graham was the best of all time."

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