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I gathered up a bunch of our email.

We got through about half of them, which is pretty good.

And started the conversation talking about today's date, which is the 22nd of November.

And we noted the assassination of President Kenny many years ago.

You know, David, there are these moments that one remembers where you were for the rest

of your life.

I suppose January 6th is now one of those dates, but I think of the challenger disaster.

I think of 9-11, of course.

But for me, the one that makes me choke in grief and emotion every November 22nd, in other

words, the severest for me of all those commemorative dates is the assassination of John

Kennedy.

I was too young really to know what was going on.

But I could sense in the response of my parents just how monumental a moment that was.

And I think, as a historian, reading books about the aftermath, Vietnam, Nixon, Watergate,

the revelations of the CIA, the scandal, the Iran Contra scandal, et cetera, et cetera.

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