A Drifter Who Stalked Success

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Indeed, any explanation at all can smack of the pat. The consequence of lives like John Hinckley Jr.'s may be to amend a patriotic platitude. Perhaps not every little boy can grow up to be President, but he can, for the price of a pistol, grow up to be a presidential assassin.

— By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Richard C. Woodbury /Evergreen and Robert C Wurmstedt/Lubbock

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