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Blue_In_AK

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11. It was horrible. I remember it very well, too.

Reply to aquart (Reply #9)

Mon May 21, 2012, 11:56 PM

May 2012

I was so turned off, I didn't vote in 1968, the first year I was eligible, in protest. Actually, thinking back on it, I think that Chicago convention was another one of those defining moments in my life, like the assassinations.

Isn't it ironic that the Chicago of those days had a Democratic mayor, just like the Chicago of today.

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... cthulu2016 May 2012 #8

I watched the convention gavel to gavel. aquart May 2012 #9

It was horrible. I remember it very well, too. Blue_In_AK May 2012 #11

... cthulu2016 May 2012 #10