14/02/2026 07:11

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I began by saying that I had come to Washington “to prepare for the life of a practicing politician”; I The legislature, prodded by its senior member, Max Howell, who was liberal on education and taxes but close to the utilities, watered down my first request and refused to fund the second. '   'Whatelse've I got? I've got the concrete blonde. He said that would force him into a coalition government with the Communists, and he would deal only with North Vietnam.

My last event was in the Palmer House Hotel, scene of the only photo I have of my parents together, taken just before Mother came back to Hope in 1946. She was thin, with small breasts and a small, flat stomach. Dazed-looking people dressed in loose cotton dresses or pajamas walked around aimlessly, muttering to themselves or shouting into space. '   'Vegas? Why'd you go to Vegas?'   'Why else, to gamble.