RE: Hey guys. Name is Tara
August 22, 2016 at 8:46 pm
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2016 at 8:48 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 22, 2016 at 8:30 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I voted for Nixon.
Twice.
I am probably enough younger than you that I was starry eyed enough to think McGovern was the bees knees. 72' would have been the first election I was old enough to vote in, although I did some campaigning for Hubert in 68' when I was in high school. Probably Nixon seemed like a more serious person to you. Also you were in NY where a great deal of stock is placed in being realistic. I was in the bay area with hippy ambitions.
He obviously took himself so seriously that he was willing to break laws in order to ensure that we would have the benefit of him in office.