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When Mrs. Bondurant, the civics teacher, asked each of the freshman students what part in government they would like to be, Henry quickly said, "Speaker of the House." He had every hope that he'd be able to tame those pesky feathers on top of his head--after all, in politics, looking the part was as important as substance.
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Henry, reading 20th century history, stumbled onto Joseph McCarthy and his famous Red Baiter hunt for Communists in the 1950's. He wondered what Joe would have thought of him . . .
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While wearing her tiny "Mexican" party hat, Her Royal Fuzziness, The Princess Buttercup, saw on TV that one of the freshman senators claimed the world was ending in 12 years. She wondered if that was human years or dog years . . .
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After Bennie's speech announcing that he was running for president, the local paper ran an editorial saying that "his appeal to voters was not only corny but definitely twisted . . . "
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Herman (not the German) thought he really had something to offer the New Green Deal--he WAS green, REALLY green . . .
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Jim's (upper left) brothers were encouraging him to run for office for two reasons: First, there would be some house cleaning after the Mueller investigation that would need replacements, and second, he had a natural politician's face and the attitude . . .
