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Timbuk3

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2. As a kid in SD

Reply to corkhead (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 09:51 PM

Jul 2013

(I don't live there, any more) I had supper with him, once.

I was young, don't remember much, but I am ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN he was the last American statesman.

I honestly believe America was lost in that devastating election of 1972.

"Don't blame me, I voted for McGovern" bumper stickers were everywhere.

And the absolutely batshit insane astonishing fact I can't quite wrap my mind around?

Nixon was a liberal, by today's standards.

We've fallen VERY far.

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