Saturday - June 24, 2006
Remember When ….
“A Chance To Lead”
TIME Magazine
August 16, 1968
As they start on the road to November, the Republicans are united. Now what will they do with their unity? Richard Nixon is clearly in tune with his party. Will he be in tune with the country?
These are the chief questions that emerge from the Republican Convention and will dominate the political scene for the next 2½ months. The American party system allows a measure of plasticity every four years.
The Republicans are making the most of this chance. The painful ruptures of the past have been treated and very nearly healed—almost in a spirit of harmony or bust.
More confident than ever of his party's nomination, Humphrey felt more at leisure to consider his choice for the No. 2 spot. The Vice President could ill afford the eupepsia.
The Democratic Party is as badly split as ever over the war. In fact, South Dakota Senator George McGovern's belated entry into the race can only increase intraparty factionalism.
Robert Kennedy was once asked to name the most decent man in the Senate. "George McGovern," he replied. "He's the only decent man in the Senate." South Dakota's junior Senator felt much the same way about Kennedy.
The two were close friends for years, from the time that McGovern took over John F. Kennedy's Food for Peace program in 1961. Since Robert Kennedy's death, McGovern, 46, has been an unofficial rallying point for disenchanted R.F.K. forces who are unwilling to accept either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy.
In November of 1968 I was 19 years old but couldn’t vote. The 26th Amendment to the Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, was passed three years later in 1971. In 1972 I voted for Nixon. I have voted in every Presidential election since.
Posted by The Skipper
on 06/24/2006 at 01:14 PM
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Interesting article for the gun fans among us...
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This gets my old forensic juices going simply because so much work is involved in the investigation and prosecution of firearms cases.
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22 pounds of innefficiency
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Or, what the UAW foists on the Detroit automakers? I vote "Yes" because in both cases, it's so much regulatory bulls**t that it simply isn't funny anymore. In this case,…
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Bypass grandfather fights off Samurai sword post office raiders. Another battling Brit, in civvies
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The British government's insistence on disarming law biding citizens is more like a plan to control health care costs by eliminating those pesky senior citizens who insist on getting old…
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SANDI TOKSVIG IS ANOTHER FAT CLUMSY CLOWN and SPOONS MADE ROSIE FAT.
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Fat blabber mouth, infected cyst of a human being Rosie tried to revive the Variety Show and America spoke. You suck Rosie! Just Jared Rosie O’Donnell tried to revive the…
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A little good news
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Rosie O'Donnell, prominent member of the Film Actors’ Guild, has had her "variety show" cancelled after just one airing! Not that that's an unusual thing, it happens quite often in…
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