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“America in the sixties was divided, like the Sneetches on Dr. Seuss’s beaches, into two social clubs: the Franklins, who were the in-crowd at Nixon’s alma mater, Whittier College; and the Orthogonians, a rival group founded by Nixon after the Franklins rejected him, made up of “the strivers, those not to the manor born, the commuter students like him. He persuaded his fellows that reveling in one’s unpolish was a nobility of its own.”
—The Political Scene: The Fall of Conservatism: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
November 2008
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“Obama defeated not one, but both of the leading practitioners of that 1960s-rooted cultural politics. More to the point, he did this by quite literally running against politics as both those groups practiced it.”
—TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama’s Win: A Death-Knell For 1960s Cultural Politics?
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Spiritualized - Oh Happy Day (Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997)
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