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13. In 2004 I met people who worked for and around John Kerry and the stories about ...
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 01:03 PM
Aug 2019

... what a good guy he was were amazing. Kerry's break through to get Iran to meet and then
negotiate when he was Sec. of State was amazing. Kerry knew he was going to meet his Iranian
counterpart @ some function in Paris and he learned that the Iranian diplomat liked architecture
so John brought him a book on Fredrick Law Olmstead and Central Park. 2 weeks later Kerry got
a letter from the Iranian thanking him for the book and how much he enjoyed it and at the bottom
of the letter was a little P.s. saying something like, "Do you want to get together and talk sometime?"

The deal that Kerry, Sec. of Energy Moniz, and the other nations got done w/Iran was amazing and
Trump dumped it out of the fact that he could not stand the idea that "the black guy" got something
done.

BTW the things I saw and heard in OH in 2004 still haunt me.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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