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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - "Nothing's clean, Howard. But we do our best, right?" the Ava Gardner character tells eccentric Howard Hughes, who is fretting over germs.
It's one of my favorite movie quotes, one that universally speaks to the human condition - most any condition, particularly politics.
In the 2004 Academy Award-winning film "The Aviator" about Howard Hughes, the recluse plane builder/movie maker (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) stares at a wash basin of tap water and asks actress Gardner (Kate Beckinsale): "Does that look clean to you?"
Gardner's "nothing's
