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(10,597 posts)... now there's a name I haven't heard in ages. Thanks for posting all this, Octafish. History is so important. Not the revisionist kind, either. And bibliographies are your friend. If a book doesn't have a contents, index, notes and/or bibliography, put the book back on the shelf.
You know, when Jr was in there, Cheney was really running the store? Well, it was the same with Bush Sr, who was running things during the Reagan Adm. Reagan was just the front man for the cameras. And he was perfect for the "part". I think this is why GWB mentioned Reagan all the time. He wanted so much to be the suave cowboy like Reagan for the cameras while Cheney ran things from behind the curtain. He just couldn't pull it off like his dad did, as he couldn't put three words in a sentence without screwing it up somehow. GHWB had a likeable facade, at least. Cheney was evil incarnate.
Yeah, all you young whipper snappers need to go look up Jonathan Kwitny. Another good one to look up is author James Bamford. Read Puzzle Palace first. And James is still living and writing books.
Republicans hate history. They want us all to forget the past so they can pull the same tricks over and over down through time. So we will forget that Republicans have been so injurious to this country down through time.