I think one of the reasons it seemed in the seventies that we couldn’t lose was Watergate. There was Nixon, this man my father had been insisting was a crook for so long, who actually was a crook. And then we were getting rid of Nixon and were getting out of Vietnam and women could have abortions and the CIA was found to have illegally kept records on three hundred thousand citizens. It seemed a shoo-in that we’d won. And if we’d only had a dashing leader, we might have. But no, all the people who could have inspired us dumped girlfriends like Mary Jo Kopechne into ponds. If ever a country was
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