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GARRISON KEILLOR
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Why they are looking at the skinny guy
Senator McCain is 71 and most likely he will be the last Old Guy presidential candidate for all of you boomers. Goodbye, Great White Father in Washington. It happens as you age: Other people get younger. The pilots flying you to New York are teenagers. Your banker, your therapist, even your urologist is young. Still, you go along thinking of the Leader of the Free World as your old civics teacher, genial, omniscient, wielding his pointer, patiently answering dumb questions, and then one day one of your classmates has the pointer in hand and he is not one of the smart ones. It's a big whoosh in your life: Mr. Teacher has left the building and Larry has taken over.
Back when decency was part of discourse
Last Wednesday was Feb. 27 and before the day was over I was aware of two things: William F. Buckley Jr. died that day, and it was the 40th anniversary of Walter Cronkite's influential Vietnam commentary. And contemplating their use of words made me think of how much things have changed in the last 40 years.
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