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Post by Jim Boylston on Apr 5, 2011 6:02:31 GMT -5
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Post by tracesoftexas on Apr 12, 2011 12:47:31 GMT -5
""Needcesaty" ----- what a word. I am going to adopt it and integrate it into my daily discourse.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Apr 12, 2011 16:24:55 GMT -5
Nice discovery. Crockett sounds like a good book promoter.
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Post by Hiram on Apr 12, 2011 21:18:04 GMT -5
Whether effective or not as a congressman, David Crockett was definitely an honest politician. He was poor when elected to his first term in Washington and poor when defeated for what would have been his fourth term. This recently uncovered letter to his publishers confirms that.
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Post by Jim Boylston on Apr 12, 2011 21:32:02 GMT -5
Crockett's failed run for a third consecutive term effectively ruined him financially. He was always in close financial straits, but he never recovered from that particular loss.
It's a miracle he was able to pull off another victory the next election given his condition. He was up against a formidable political machine financed by the Jackson administration.
Jim
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Post by Rich Curilla on Apr 15, 2011 11:34:09 GMT -5
""Needcesaty" ----- what a word. I am going to adopt it and integrate it into my daily discourse. Reminds me of one of the 1955 Davy Crockett books that included a list of "Davy's words" (no doubt mostly the product of a 1954 imagination). My favorite *Crockettism* was "slantendicular" -- the way you look at somebody when you don't exactly believe what they are saying. |
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