[81714] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Bozos Against Flag Burning"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri Jun 13 08:58:49 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03102800afc6900d09d3@[207.167.93.63]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:00:50 -0400
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 1:56 am -0400 on 6/13/97, Tim May wrote:
> Did you vote for
> George McGovern in 1972 because he was a veteran (a bomber pilot, in fact)
> while Richard Nixon was a guy who finagled his way out of joining the
> military?
Uh, Nixon spent WWII in the navy(?) in the Pacific.
About the only finagling he did was win enough in poker to fund his
congressional campaign on returning home.
I am not a crook,
Bob Hettinga
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