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Joe Biden s got a problem and so do I. And so, in fact, do we.
At 76 years old, you d think I d experienced it all when it comes to this country and its presidencies. Or most of it, anyway. I ve been around since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Born on July 20, 1944, I m a little young to remember him, though I was a war baby in an era when Congress still sometimes declared war before America made it.
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As a boy, in my liberal Democratic household in New York, I can certainly remember singing (to the tune of Whistle While You Work ) our version of the election-year ditty of 1956 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower faced off against Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson. The pro-Republican kicker to it went this way: Eisenhower has the power, Stevenson s a jerk. We, however, sang, Eisenhower has no power, Stevenson will work! As it happened, we never found out if that was faintly true, since the former Illinoi
Call it Rush Limbaugh’s media revolution.
To explain? Hop in the time travel machine and come with me back to 1963 and 1964.
Arizona’s Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, dubbed “Mr. Conservative” as he was the unofficial standard bearer of the aborning conservative movement, was getting ready to run for president in 1964, and finally did so.
In his memoirs he discusses three separate incidents, all of them involving CBS News.
Number One: CBS through its president came to Goldwater in 1963 telling him they wanted to “produce an hour-long documentary on the conservative revolution in America. They even mentioned a title,
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Joe Biden’s got a problem and so do I. And so, in fact, do we.
At 76 years old, you’d think I’d experienced it all when it comes to this country and its presidencies. Or most of it, anyway. I’ve been around since Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. Born on July 20, 1944, I’m a little “young” to remember him, though I was a war baby in an era when Congress still sometimes declared war before America made it.
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The imperial presidency comes home to roost.
epa08615688 A framegrab from the Democratic National Convention Committee livestream showing Joe Biden speaking during the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 20 August 2020. The convention, which was expected to draw 50,000 people to the city, is now taking place virtually due to coronavirus pandemic concerns. EPA-EFE/DNCC
Joe Biden’s got a problem and so do I. And so, in fact, do we.
At 76 years old, you’d think I’d experienced it all when it comes to
this country and its presidencies. Or most of it, anyway. I’ve been