On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Cheney and Rumsfeld have been a tandem team for five decades, starting with President Richard Nixon.
Has it been that long? Gosh, time flies as one speeds towards the near-elderly demographic. Isn't the novelty of all this somewhat exaggerated? It was a crime to say unkind things about the U.S. government during WW I; scads of immigrants were deported. There were loyalty oaths for employment in the 1950s. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. And I haven't even mentioned semi-official punishments like lynchings. Doug
