[concentric circles]

Its no coincidence that San Francisco and Los Angeles precincts did not report until results in the rest of California were in. You can't report the votes if you don't know how many you need in order to win. Vote tampering is an old craft handed down from one generation to the next.

Beside the point, the writer, Peter Carlson, does a substantial disservice in refering to Sen. Everett Dirksen as the "frog-voiced Republican patriarch." I have never heard a single negative word spoken about this man, he was a rare gem in the history of congress. He was a true orator and a gentleman, a man of principle. And his voice was a mellifluous baritone, real velvet.

[Chemnitz]

I read that he put Pond's lotion down his throat to make it mellow. Maybe that is a myth, but it did sound unusually soft. He was quite a guy.