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Mungo quit Canberra in 1988, his legend so established then that we donât need to speak his surname even now.
He declared he couldnât bear the idea of leaving the dear little old Parliament House that he had inhabited for so many years just to move to the grand new building on the hill.
Mungo in 1979. To miss one of his madcap but insightful Nation Review columns in the 1970s was to leave you out of contemporary historyâs loop.
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He felt the new place was cold and pretentious and had so many miles of corridors heâd get lost searching for targets, which is to say, politicians.
here in america. congressman buddy carter republican from georgia, thank you. thank you. for more bring in jon meacham. rick tyler. and umeesh alcindor, national reporter for the national times and an msnbc contributor. to listen to the folks we just listened to, this is just all pretty straightforward. they want to do the business of the people. putting aside things people like john mccain, frankly former president george w. bush, certainly jeff flake and bob corker have to say. jon meacham, is this just another blip in usual party disunity, or is what we re witnessing something bigger here? it is something bigger. the congressman s point is probably the one i would make if i were trying to make that case. you can almost see the talking point being written and crafted to say that we re here by the