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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.

“How can you say that?” he asked, noting that Cheney had opposed same-sex marriage and was a legatee of the father of the Iraq War.

Walter Frederick Mondale—a pioneering vice president and a nimble ambassador to Japan, the last Democratic nominee who ran for president as the champion of the New Deal coalition, a Hubert Humphrey protégé who was perhaps the final legatee of the glory days of Minnesota’s distinctive Democratic-Farmer-Labor heritage has died at age 93.

In this respect, Trump is but the crude, know-nothing legatee of a regressive process long in the making.

Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?