In 1956, when I was 13, I wrote a winning essay on why Dwight D. Eisenhower should win re-election. The title was “Why Republicans Should Be Elected Again”. It was an English class assignment. The Westport Town Crier published my essay under “Wisdom From A Thirteen-Year-Old.”
I certainly wasn’t a wise teenager, far from it. But I did have Republican pare…
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