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BidenRocks

(2,967 posts)
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 06:44 PM Apr 2025

60 Years! 60 Years! 60 Years!

Last edited Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:28 PM - Edit history (1)

We need to shout this at the traitors both gqp and magass to remind them of the FULL effect of tariffs.
I'm sure they know what that means!
Cowards!

"When [President William McKinley], most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”

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60 Years! 60 Years! 60 Years! (Original Post) BidenRocks Apr 2025 OP
I'm not sure what event you are referencing. Jeebo Apr 2025 #1
Sorry. BidenRocks Apr 2025 #2

Jeebo

(2,555 posts)
1. I'm not sure what event you are referencing.
Sun Apr 6, 2025, 07:12 PM
Apr 2025

I just Googled up some information. On April 6, 1965, this happened:

U.S. ground combat troops to take offensive measures
National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy drafts and signs National Security Action Memorandum 328 on behalf of President Lyndon B. Johnson. This document came out of National Security Council meetings that were held on April 1 and April 2.

Is this what you're talking about?

At first I thought you might be talking about the Selma-to-Montgomery march. I was in the ninth grade in Albert G. Parrish High School in Selma when that march happened. But it was in MARCH 1965, not April.

-- Ron

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