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by hoprocker 3405 days ago
"Ronald Reagan started to have a decline in the number of unique words with repetitions of statements over time,” said Sherman. “[He] started using more fillers, more empty phrases, like ‘thing’ or ‘something’ or things like ‘basically’ or ‘actually’ or ‘well’."

Seems like history might be coming around again on this one.

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Had this thought within the hour listening to the business roundtable Trump hosted (on Youtube), before reading this article. Saw a very old interview on Charlie Rose yesterday and he (Trump) seemed sharper then.