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Weekly Contest #214
My parents were Nixon Republicans. They may have been the only Massachusetts residents who had voted for Nixon instead of Kennedy in 1960. Okay, so maybe I’m exaggerating. But that’s how it felt to me. They thought Lyndon Johnson was a wimp for setting up anti-poverty programs. “Those people need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps,” my father said. “But Dad, how’s that possible, when they don’t have bootstraps to begin with?” I asked. “You’re becoming a communist!” he declared, as he threw down his newspaper and headed to the gara...
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