NPR's Nina Totenberg on "Inside Washington," September 22, 2001:
We have gone through, I think, a kind of, what I would call a silly
season, of thinking that there is really no need for a federal
government, when in fact the federal government fought the Civil War,
solved the Great Depression, fought the First and Second World Wars,
won the Cold War. And now we're going... to find out why we are not
just a loose confederation of states, but a republic and a federal
national government and that's what this period is for.
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