'Word' from Robert Reich's dad...

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14. Man, truer words never spoken. And so succinct! That sure lays it out. Totally.

That's EXACTLY how it went, and EXACTLY what happened. This dad oughta know, with a frame of time-reference like that. I can remember back as far as Kennedy. I was an Eisenhower baby but way too young to remember much of that at all, except there'd be news stories about some old dude who used to be somebody who kept having heart attacks. But I was a KID. Just completely unaware with no context or anything. Too young to remember anything besides what Mom fixed me for breakfast. Had no idea who or what Ike was til I studied about him later. And I don't remember a LOT about Kennedy either, except how he brought a new youth to the White House after the Grandpa/Grandma era in there had ended. THIS new President had kids who not only lived in the White House but were LITTLE kids, kinda like me. And their mom had brown (not gray) hair and no wrinkles and was young and fashionable and smart-looking like my mom was. I could relate to that, personally. And I did. I now have lived during the administrations of 11 presidents, and remember 10 of them.

Our elders sometimes have eyesight (and memory) that fades. THIS dad still sees (and remembers) things VERY clearly.