[lbo-talk] Mel Laird: we were winning in Vietnam, we could win in Iraq!

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Wed Oct 12 19:59:58 PDT 2005


At 6:46 PM -0700 12/10/05, joanna wrote:


>>>When I was Secretary of the Yale Political Union and a member of
>>>the Party of the Right, we invited Secretary of State William
>>>Rogers to come receive an award. He couldn't get anywhere near the
>>>Law School, where the award was supposed to be presented, because
>>>it was surrounded by protesters. I'm embarrassed to admit I was
>>>not a protester, but a member of the disappointed welcoming crew.
>>>He invited the officers of the Union down to DC a few weeks later,
>>>where we presented the award and had lunch in his private dining
>>>room. What a creep I was for about 18 months then.
>>
>It happens. I read Ayn Rand cover to cover about three times.
>
>At least we woke up.

Enough of the public self-flagellation, its embarrassing.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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