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steve2470

(37,468 posts)
4. it's just unreal
Mon Mar 24, 2014, 08:32 PM
Mar 2014

I admit, when I was 16 and 17, I was very young, very naive and very idealistic. However, I got very disillusioned by Nixon, Watergate and the Ford pardon. Watergate was a crash course in the sometimes sordid ways of Washington. You lose your naivete quickly if you pay close attention. It's great to be idealistic but hey, reality bites.

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