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From: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich)
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Subject: Lyndon LaRouche
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Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 01:31:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 01:31:26 1984
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Just who is Lyndon LaRouche, "independent democratic candidate for
President?"  I first heard about him from my father, who watched a
half-hour paid tv message several months ago (before the conventions)
on a St. Louis station.  The subject of that talk was agriculture.

I then watched the last 20 minutes of a similar 30-minute paid broadcast
here in Boston about 1 month ago; this time he spoke on foreign policy,
viz., Soviet strategy.  My impressions of that broadcast were that the
man was extremely well prepared, his arguments seemed well-formed, and
he used AV (maps, old film clips, etc) materials very well.  He spoke
very little about what he would do; rather he spent most of the time
explaining what he believed the USSR strategy to be and how current
policy was inapropriate.  Kissinger's policies got the most criticism.
His political slant was very conservative.

My father said he made some pretty outrageous claims about Mondale in
the broadcast he saw (e.g., Mondale had met with a bunch of KGB-types
about something-or-other).  

I just noticed a quick ad tonight that he would be on again tomorrow
night at 7:30.  What is this guy's background and what is his financial
backing?

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--Bruce Nemnich, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
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