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The kinds of things Johnson reveled in--locker-room talk and stiff belts of whiskey, the "muted grays" of the Senate's well-turned compromises, even his own hard-earned influence and wealth--were the kinds of things against which the Harvard-educated Kennedy defined his very identity.
Dole's speech tried to put over, one more time, the fiction that the federal government takes away your hard-earned money and spends most of it on things that only social workers want.
For example, the membership soundly rejected the Institute's efforts to further stretch the CPA brand name and allow others to benefit from our profession's hard-earned reputation through the so-called "XYZ initiative."
However, as it stands, my hard-earned cash is simply being handed directly over to retired people, many of whom are much better off than I am--and I'm never going to see dollar one of a payout from this so-called "investment."
Clearly, one of the big lessons from Andersen's fall is that it may take years to create a reputation of quality and integrity but that hard-earned reputation can be lost very quickly if there is a real or perceived breach of trust.