Donald Trump has a penchant for blaming the press for his travails. It brought to mind an old baseball story about two managers - Birdie Tebbetts and Bobby Bragan. Tebbetts was being fired by the Braves circa 1963 and Bragan was coming in to replace him and asked if he had any advice. Tebbetts said when he arrived he found two envelopes in his desk - No. 1 read "to be opened when the heat is on and the team is losing." Soon this came to pass and on opening the envelope the message inside read "Blame the press." This gave him some peace for a few months but soon it was time to check envelope No. 2 - the terse message inside read "prepare two new envelopes for your successor." Fame is fleeting!
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