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In reply to the discussion: Now that we're back in the 1950s, what will you adapt from those times? [View all]graham4anything
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The elections of 1952 and 1956 were the single biggest mistakes of American history, before the future single biggest mistakes of history, the Eisenhower clone Reagan, the Warren Commisson's Ford, the three Bush's and the Paul family
I like Adlai.
Smartest person ever to run for President yet the public wanted the man who brought Nixon to fame and was a war monger general.
BTW, the 50s sucked for most people. It was not the fabled Norman Rockwell time that was pictured for the vast majority of the democratic party.
Oh, wait, this is the lounge, it is suppose to be light.
Gimme some Elvis and Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis please.
Don McLean's American Pie didn't make any sense back before 1958
and the horse with no name was still trotting away on the east coast, not yet going to that dessert
and the world couldn't yet say
Who was better, Koufax or Gibson? (Damn, that is the question that broke the computers. There just is no answer to that.)
(being that we know now that there indeed is an an answer for WHY (yesterday it was revealed, WHY=NADER).