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A Beleaguered Gentleman: Speaker Mike Johnson

The sky is cloudless and blue on a warm April afternoon as a cheerful Mike Johnson, seated on a beige couch next to an unlit fireplace in an office still new to him, contemplates his demise, taking solace in Providence and repeating the words of John Quincy Adams - an illustration of his circumstances almost as much as a reluctant acceptance of fate