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JI7

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2. what does it say that it would be more difficult for john glenn to have become president

Reply to PlanetBev (Original post)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 03:44 PM

Dec 2016

Than it was for Reagan w Bush and trump ?????????

Why don't we look up to people like glenn more ?

I think around the 80s was when ceos and wealthy get rich types came to be admired more than people who do great things for others through science , humanitarian work etc.

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