New York Times veteran William Safire, in his book Before the Fall, famously quoted an unidentified senior editor as saying, after the 1972 landslide, quote: There's got to be a bloodletting … We've got to make sure nobody even thinks of doing anything like this again. The progressive establishment really hated Nixon - hated him, and feared him. Those enemies included well-nigh all the major media of the time. That, on a long fuse, ignited Watergate-the-event: a major political convulsion in which the enemies of Richard Nixon, who was re-elected to the Presidency by a landslide later that year, united in an effort to get him removed from office. You've probably seen notices in the media that today, June 17th, is the fiftieth anniversary of the Watergate burglary - or attempted burglary, the details still seem unclear. 'Two shillings a pound!'Ġ2 - Political outrage theater, then and now. Then, buy yourself a nice bag of strawberries and scarf 'em down with whipped cream. Go ahead, listeners, grumble about inflation. Why can't the Treasury just recalibrate the currency every so often: declare yesterday's five dollars to be today's one dollar? That would keep things nice and stable, wouldn't it?Īll right, I'm an economic ignoramus. The lesser inflation of strawberry prices is probably because back then the fruit was being picked by sturdy English peasants, while today the strawberry-picking is done by illegal aliens from Senegal. Prices there today overall are 24½ times higher than in 1960. If the price of strawberries in the U.K has tracked the U.S. My local Stop & Shop is currently charging $4.99 a pound for strawberries, 17 times the price in England back then. Two shillings was at that point twenty-nine cents U.S. At the point in the year when I first heard these vendors calling out, 'Strawberries! Lovely ripe strawberries! Two shillings a pound …,' I would know that my birthday was imminent. Twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays, people from the farms and villages all around would set up market stalls and sell their produce. At the center of the town was a large open space used as a market. I grew up in a country town in England's East Midlands. Indulge me a moment please while I reminisce. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your spasmodically genial host John Derbyshire with a mid-June survey of the passing scene.Īh, June. (A terminally diseased society.)Ĥ5:19 No wokery, please we're Hungarian. (End of the nuclear peace dream.)Ĥ3:25 Jail for George Floyd jokes. (Demography, destiny.)ģ8:47 Uruguay! (A better bolt-hole than Mexico.)Ĥ0:57 Nuke up, everyone. (Russia takes the lead over Ukraine.)ģ5:03 Deep currents. (Why not hulks?)Ģ8:58 David 0, Goliath 1. (Californians flee to Mexico.)Ģ0:56 Britain's immigration fiasco. (I wonder why?)ġ5:26 Life imitates art on the border. (Remembering Watergate.)Ġ9:51 Law-enforcement morale is low.

Pete and June talked for hours, reminiscing about the Summer of Love.03:17 Political outrage theater, then and now.

The entertainment is the pleasure of reminiscing with one's friends and making a couple of witty speeches.

He was in Toksu Palace, where he had enjoyed the evening, reminiscing with attendants about the old days.

You might think about your family and get a warm feeling, but you have to reminisce to feel that way.

At club meetings, we like to reminisce, remembering old times.

Back at the car park we had a well earned cuppa and reminisced over another hot day back in 1933.

The retired can squat, smoke, reminisce and grow old and die in familiar, comfortable surroundings.

Jenny talked about her flying experiences whilst Billie reminisced about the warmth of her native Southern California.For a few seconds, you find yourself reminiscing about rainy afternoons, cookies and milk, naps on the floor.

I used to spend hours listening to my grandfather reminisce about life in the army.Jermyn reminisces about a certain woman with whom he once indulged his passion and vanity.From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English reminisce rem‧i‧nisce / ˌreməˈnɪs / verb to talk or think about pleasant events in your past reminisce about a group of former students reminiscing about their college days ► see thesaurus at remember → See Verb table Examples from the Corpus reminisce

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