At some time or another it's crossed the mind of everyone here.
The memory of President Jimmy Carter's failed hostage rescue mission in Iran had to have been on the mind of everyone in the White House.
If this belated revelation changes nothing from one perspective — Oswald still did it — it simultaneously changes everything, if only because it disrupts the state of mind of everyone who has ever been transfixed by the Zapruder film.
In a paradoxical way, Saddam may be a force for stability in the Middle East, in the sense that the playground bully - like the drunk on the aeroplane - concentrates the mind of everyone else.
When Clinton's turn at the podium came, he was, by comparison, muted, long-winded, and a little dry, as though the only thing on the mind of everyone in the room must be the pros and cons of pending empowerment-zone legislation.
Wounded by his time in prison (in ways that will be detailed over the course of the show) and feeling lost in the world of cellphones and the Internet, he returns to his hometown and his mother's house, where his presence threatens the peace of mind of everyone around him.
