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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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"He ran against McGovern? Hmmm... I kind of have a hole in American history between, say, 1960 and 1980."
My brothers and I always joke about how our public school US history books would be very thorough up to about FDR and then the rest of 1945-1980 would be summed up in one chapter with a picture of some Vietnam protestors :) I imagine that's partly because that's as much as teachers can cover in one year, but I also sometimes wonder if that's intentional.
Only in reruns. We didn't get ABC until we got cable in the early 70s. But we had one TV and my dad controlled that.
I know where you've been...
You had cable in the early 70's? We didn't get it until early 80's.
"I was 6. ;-)"
LOL! Nice to hear Goldwater had the youth demographic's support :)
I read something about Agnew's selection in Stephen Ambrose's Nixon bio, but I forgot what he said--I need to review that. Wasn't Agnew the one who said the famous line about the "nattering nabobs of negativism"?
I've been good! I'm just reading it for the articles.
Also I think there's a deficiency in certain historians - they lived through it, so it's not history yet.
Yeah, my dad lost his job in a really stupid labor dispute (supervisor overreacted). When they reinstated him, he got all his backpay. We bought a color tv and had cable installed. I think it was 1971. Up until that point we could get two NBC stations and a CBS station...not that there were many more at the time.
BTW, meant to tell y'all, yesterday I managed to find used paperback copies of Heinlein's "Green Hills of Earth" and "Expanded Universe" short story collection. How are those?
"Green Hills of Earth"! Great collection, great story, great song - I think I have most of it memorized...
"We pray for one last landing on the globe that gave us birth
Let us rest out eyes on the fleecy skies and the cool green hills of Earth".
Heh, thanks for reminding me about the religion wars... my mom was telling us about being at the VBS planning meeting yesterday and our pastor was talking about General Assembly, and mentioned one year a theologian who went to (or preached at? Not sure) our church invented an Arminian counterpoint to TULIP as a joke... I'm going to try to find that and send it to her...
I read it when I was in high school, which means it's been about 30 years. But I like it at the time. Kind of eerie...not unlike the premise for "Boys from Brazil."
I read it when I was in high school, which means it's been about 30 years. But I like it at the time. Kind of eerie...not unlike the premise for "Boys from Brazil."
funny, i don't remember reading it twice...
"Also I think there's a deficiency in certain historians - they lived through it, so it's not history yet."
You're right--that's probably part of it, too.
They were just replaying Bush 41 giving the eulogy for Reagan, where Bush started crying during the eulogy. He broke up just as he was starting to say that he learned more from Reagan than he had from anyone else during his career in public office. I think that's reflected in GW--lots of people have mentioned how he seems more like Reagan than his father, and maybe that explains why. I guess maybe Reagan was sort of a political grandfather to GW in that way.
Where's the Elf-Maiden today?
I didn't know Heinlein wrote songs, too!--cool :) I did notice he had some characters singing in "Methuselah's Children".
I also picked up the 50th anniversary set of the Narnia books. I've only read the first two so far, so I'm looking forward to finishing the series.
And where's Rosie? I need to tell her I'm wearing smaller jeans!
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