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First Speaker

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7. I remember seeing that speech on the news as a kid...

Reply to WilliamPitt (Original post)

Wed May 28, 2014, 03:50 PM

May 2014

...and even at ten, those words impressed me. For all his faults, JFK was a great President--maybe our greatest. (Anyone else would have invaded Cuba during the Missile Crisis, thus triggering the end of the world. JFK, with his cool nerve, did not.) The shit train began on November 22...and has been rolling ever since...

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