When President Trump said, “Don’t be afraid of COVID,” you could hear the influence of one of his heroes, Norman Vincent Peale, author of “The Power Of Positive Thinking.” A minister who died in 1993, Peale was an influential figure who believed you “change your thoughts and you change your world.”
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