People who live in public life must get accustomed to living in both a positive and negative limelight. A former governor of New York says that one morning, he read in the newspaper that he had been exonerated by the Justice Department on charges that he had used improper influence to help his brother’s oil business. As he read the article, one of his children asked him why he was smiling. “I’ve been exonerated,” the governor answered.
“That does exonerated mean?” the child asked.
“It means I haven’t done anything,” his father replied
“Oh,” said the child, “that’s the same thing everybody in my school says about you.”
