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In reply to the discussion: Since November 22, 1963... [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)112. 'twas ever thus
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
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'We have more will than wallet.' -- George Herbert Walker Bush, inaugural address
Octafish
Nov 2014
#116
I live in Sam Rayburn country and I am perplexed...to say the least...that it is very conservative
Horse with no Name
Nov 2014
#12
Well now, that's one way of interpreting McLean's magnum opus. But one could say that
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#42
America was touched by the lowest demons in our nature, setting us on a different course.
Octafish
Nov 2014
#62
...this country has seen the corruption of our liberties by the MIC become the norm.
robertpaulsen
Nov 2014
#6
...and Cuba. Ike was president when Dulles hired the Mafia to kill Castro -- 1960.
Octafish
Nov 2014
#93
It is remarkable, the moments when it strikes. For me, HBO's ''Nixon by Nixon''...
Octafish
Nov 2014
#67
Since we are discussing people who need clues, perhaps you should spend a few moments
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#25
WHy don't you look up "hungry", which is what the children of the people who have been put and left
jtuck004
Nov 2014
#31
Hey, my friend, please do not confuse 'nostalgia' with 'reactionary.' I can assure you that
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#46
Maybe just maybe we learn from the past that life does not have to suck like it does today. That
jwirr
Nov 2014
#80
WTF? Historians round the world are shaking their fists at you! :) - nt
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#43
It's even more distressing to see 'progressives' forget what their party is supposed to be about.
sabrina 1
Nov 2014
#77
I was three. I still remember how upset I was. My mother had the old B & W tv on, I was watching
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2014
#18
I don't want to piss in people's nostalgia Cheerios unduly, but JFK and RFK continued to
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#45
JFK's assassination heralded the start of a string of murders of our best and brightest....
Hekate
Nov 2014
#50
Those weren't really great times for minorities and I really don't see it as
craigmatic
Nov 2014
#34
No I've read Dallek's book and seen all the documentaries but I'm not impressed by JFK.
craigmatic
Nov 2014
#63
Probably it would help understanding if you had actually been there. The Cold War was not one-sided
Hekate
Nov 2014
#72
Maybe you're right but it all comes back to ideology with JFK for me or rather his lack of one.
craigmatic
Nov 2014
#79
Once JFK allowed the Vietnamese military to kill Ngo and his brother we owned Vietnam.
craigmatic
Nov 2014
#107
Except JFK did not order assassination, despite what E Howard Hunt and CIA want us to believe.
Octafish
Nov 2014
#108
Jon Stewart said O'Reilly seemed ALMOST a Kennedy Democrat in comparison to RW extremists
pinboy3niner
Nov 2014
#56
In other words, a humorous exaggeration by a satirist for comic effect. Makes more sense that way.
Hekate
Nov 2014
#57
Sure was. Hear Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. describe what JFK did during the 1960 campaign...
Octafish
Nov 2014
#104
For a time capsule of the transition from the idealism of the late 1950s to
GreatGazoo
Nov 2014
#106