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electric_blue68

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16. I was 15 in '68, and had already started to follow politics, so I heard....

Reply to USS_Dauntless (Original post)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:40 PM

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the term "Nixon's "Southetn Stargegy" ".

I didn't hear about Lee Atwater till decades later - probably re; Willie Horton & Dukakis. I did hear about his supposed "deathbed turnabout".
What a hideous man.

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