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volstork

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25. If I mentioned White Water to a repub,

Reply to Denis 11 (Reply #20)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 09:11 AM

Feb 2018

I'll bet half of them would have no idea what I'm talking about. It's collective civic amnesia. Richard nixon was the most vilified man in the country in 1975; in 1994, he got a hero's burial. He was a traitor, too, as history has proven.

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