{"id":3439,"date":"2002-11-21T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T17:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2002-11-21T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2002-11-21T17:56:44","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/21\/history.html","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a supporter of term limits, but some paragraphs do make you pause<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dwight Eisenhower was days away from becoming the first president to hold a televised news conference and the average price of a new house was $22,000 \u2014 about the price of a new pickup truck today \u2014 when Strom Thurmond first strode into the Senate 48 years ago.<\/p>\n

The article describes the Senators leaving this term; Thurmond by no means the only long-timer, though certainly the longest.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, as long as his constituents were willing to send him back for eight terms<\/i>, why shouldn’t they be able to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not a supporter of term limits, but some paragraphs do make you pause: Dwight Eisenhower was days away from becoming the first president to hold a televised news conference…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38656,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/the-priorities-of-choosing-war.html","url_meta":{"origin":3439,"position":0},"title":"The Priorities of Choosing War","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Sep-13 8:47am","format":false,"excerpt":"Or, as Dwight Eisenhower put it (http:\/\/wist.info\/eisenhower-dwight\/5696\/):'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.'That includes lobbing a few multi-million dollar cruise missiles.That doesn't mean\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3372,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/10\/black_eye.html","url_meta":{"origin":3439,"position":1},"title":"Black eye","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Dec-02 3:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I want to say this about my state,\" Lott said last Thursday. \"When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it,\" he said to applause....","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14099,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/zomg-socialism.html","url_meta":{"origin":3439,"position":2},"title":"ZOMG! SOCIALISM!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Mar-09 9:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"A pair of good articles over the past few days on the whole \"OBAMA! TAXES! SOCIALISM!\" meme that the Right is passing around. 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