"pig" as policeman

[Jonathan Lighter]

I didn't mean to suggest the '50's were so great either.

  The Bill of Rights business seems to be endemic:  Gallup or Harris discovered during the Nixon administration that a significant portion of the electorate favored the repeal of many of the amendments.

  The biggest relief I can think of was surviving the Missile Crisis.  When Treasury Secretary Dillon was summoned back from overseas for urgent consultations (think about *that* for a moment), he told the press "We may be in a nuclear war by the end of the week."

  (I just thought of a related fact that was worse, but must restrain myself.)

  JL

sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:
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>I remember the PIG acronym as well. It may have been in 1969 or ' 70.
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> I do not look back to the '60s fondly. Does anyone - born before, say,
>1956?
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> JL
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Odd question! With all their faults, the various movements of the '60s
were a grand relief from the ferocious, repressive conformity of the '50s
and the viciousness of McCarthyism. People were so intimidated by the red
scare that they wouldn't sign copies of the Bill of Rights.
AM


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