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2016 Postmortem

WI_DEM

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5. true in the 30's and 40's he was a New Deal dem and even campaigned for FDR & Truman...

Reply to IggleDoer (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 3, 2012, 12:33 PM

Feb 2012

it was his teaming up with General Electric in the 50's (and marriage to Nancy Davis, whose father Dr. Loyal Davis was a rabid republican) that changed him. He was on the corporate gravy train and enjoyed it.

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