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In reply to the discussion: The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 [View all]H2O Man
(73,232 posts)I was telling my son yesterday, about my cousin's experience in 1960. He ran several of the democratic campaign offices in rural, upstate New York. One was in Norwich, a small "city" that is the seat of Delaware County. In my book on the experience of Irish immigrants in NYS, towards the end I wrote about how he was pulled over and ticketed by local police, five weekends in a row. (He later corrected me: it was six times!) The police told him, "We don't want your type around here."
That's from my father's side of the family; they were all solid FDR Democrats. My mother's side was split, between socialists (the white ones), and Onondaga (non-participants in US politics).
We came of age in the same era. And it sounds as if we had some of the same good influences on our thinking!