<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:12 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>The current situation makes a lot of people who lived through those<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>times yearn for the honesty of Richard Nixon.</i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I agree, there were several well documented occasions when Nixon was able to utter two or even three consecutive sentences without telling a single lie. Think of that! It really makes one nostalgic for good old Tricky Dick.</font><br><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>All people are flawed in some way, but at least they were fairly competent.<br></i></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4">I once saw a political bumper sticker that I agreed with completely, all it said was "<b>2020<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">:</span> ANY FUNCTIONAL ADULT</b>".<br><br>John K Clark</font><br></div></div>