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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: KLP who wrote (48867)10/19/2000 10:32:29 AM
From: Joseph F. Hubel  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
KLP,

Thanks for your addendum, Most of the time I write from a memory which many on this thread do not have as they were not old enough or born when these things took place. I have vivid memories and pictures of whole neighborhoods burned down in Wash,DC. and TV coverage of similar events elsewhere. The continuing riots, the daily war footage and the mini civil war American against American turmoil that seemed to go on endlessly. I remember thinking even at my somewhat youthful period, "How can we afford this horribly expensive war, the social programs and civil damages happening to our cities. I recall it as probably the worst decade of my life. I so resented Johnson for the war and the civil unrest his Great Society rhetoric seemed to foment. His programs and speeches actually appeared to be causing the discontentment. Johnson single handedly seemed to be responsible for creating the Democrat's preserved mantra of tax and spend social engineering. I remember thinking back then that as little as I then earned, they kept taking more and more of my earnings. I'm certain it was then that I developed my political leanings. I was certain Johnson was bent on reversing JFK's well remembered "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country", to "Demand that your country do for you".

JFH
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