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22 carried a picture of George Was.h.i.+ngton in his breast pocket

John F. Kennedy, ”Remarks at an Independence Day Celebration with the American Community in Mexico City,” June 30, 1962, American Presidency Project,

23 twelve by the beginning of World War II

U.S. Department of State, ”Democracy's Third Wave.”

24 the number of democracies to thirty-six

Ibid.

25 decline to thirty from 1962 until the mid-1970s

Ibid.

26 with the collapse of communism in 1989

Ibid.

27 decline in the number of democratic nations in the world

Economist Intelligence Unit, Democracy Index 2010, 2010, /democracy.

28 fourth wave of democratization

Larry Diamond, ”A Fourth Wave or False Start?,” Foreign Affairs, May 22, 2011.

29 increased in absolute terms to the highest level since 1945

Kagan, ”Not Fade Away,” January 11, 2012; Todd Purdum, ”One Nation, Under Arms,” Vanity Fair, January 2012.

30 almost equal to the military spending of the entire rest of the world

Purdum, ”One Nation, Under Arms.”