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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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 essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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

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