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I keep reminding myself that the vast majority of living Americans don't remember most of what I remember about national and world events. That's because I'm 80 years old and this year's college graduates, for instance, are 24 years old on the average. In fact, more than half our present population was born after January 1972. This is important for me to keep in mind because in my writings I tend to refer to the past as if everybody lived through it like I did. College graduates in the class of 2007 were mostly born in 1983, during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. They have no first hand recollections of the Watergate scandal, the Vietnam conflict, the glamorous heyday of Marilyn Monroe or the matrimonial adventures of Liz Taylor. For these recent grads, the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King took place in a distant age.  My first on-the-spot memory of national issues goes back to the election of 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt ousted Herbert...
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