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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

Gore Vidal

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself

What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

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