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Gman

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2. I read this when it was first published

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2014, 01:56 PM

Apr 2014

And read it every year. It gets better every time I read it.

And to think Nixxon was actually preferable to W. I wished for Nixxon many times in that 8 years. Something I never thought I'd do in 1973. That's how bad Bush was.

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