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32. Mitt's dad imploded because he said the Pentagon had ''brainwashed'' him re Vietnam.

Reply to Benton D Struckcheon (Reply #27)

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 09:43 PM

Jun 2014

Michigan Governor George Romney toured South Vietnam in 1968 and returned to the USA convinced the war was completely different from what had been pictured on the tee vee and in the noosepapers. Moreover, it was totally unwinnable. He dropped out of the front-runner status to dropped out of the race the same day it hit, the media firestorm was so big, centered, strangely, not on what he found in Vietnam, at such variance with what Washington and the media were reporting; rather coverage focused upon his mental stability for claiming to have been "brainwashed." For a guy to tell the truth was crazy.

PS: Great post, Benton D Struckcheon. Outstanding memory, yours!

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Sure, but... lakercub Jun 2014 #13

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Truth that held until Reagan...then Poppy Bush...then Smirko Bush. Octafish Jun 2014 #12

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That's a great bumpersticker, eridani. Octafish Jun 2014 #30

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Ah, Nixon. Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2014 #27

Mitt's dad imploded because he said the Pentagon had ''brainwashed'' him re Vietnam. Octafish Jun 2014 #32

Thanks, but I cheat, sort of. Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2014 #33

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