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Concordance entry - oh, well... - robkelk - 05-16-2009

There's an entry in the concordance for chapter seven:
Quote:out of fear of the youth of America, Richard Nixon attempts to cancel the 1972 elections and fails
According to my reading, Nixon did in fact go so far as to ask the well-known thinktank the Rand Corporation if he should do this in our "real" history. He got words to the effect of "Are you crazy? No!" as a response.
Alas, http://www.rand.org/about/faq.html says this didn't really happen, at least not in our timeline:
Quote:RAND advised President Nixon on the feasibility of canceling the 1972 presidential election
Henry S. Rowen, then president of the RAND Corporation, released this statement carried by The Wall Street Journal on May 13, 1970: "The Rand Corporation has not undertaken such a study. It does not contemplate making such a study, nor has it been approached by anyone with a proposal for such a study."
But that's our timeline...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

- Bob Schroeck - 05-16-2009

Okay, then I had bad or biased sources on that one. I'll revise next chance I get.

Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.