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To: Moonman62

I had not been aware of Hastert until the late, great Bob Novak broke the story that Hastert was the odds-on-favorite to succeed Livingston as Speaker.


15 posted on 06/05/2015 7:42:30 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Theodore R.

IIRC, at the time, Hastert was the “low-key, non-controversial” speaker choice, after Noot’s fireworks, and Livingston’s self-immolation.


16 posted on 06/05/2015 7:45:21 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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