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Lydia Leftcoast

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23. As a Washington outsider, he didn't know

Reply to oberliner (Reply #14)

Tue Oct 8, 2013, 06:56 PM

Oct 2013

whose asses he was supposed to kiss to get anything done, and that was a large part of it.

It wasn't an entirely wonderful term, although certainly better than now!

It was the era when the MX missile was proposed (missiles that were supposed to be kept constantly moving on a newly constructed system of railroad tracks so that the Soviets couldn't target them) and the first interventions on the side of the brutal El Salvador government.

But on the whole, he tried to do the right thing.

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