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From: ix742@sdcc6.UUCP (James Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Political Quote of the Month
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 22:10:31 EST
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msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes in article <1135@lsuc.UUCP>:
>
>I heard this at nth-hand (n>3), so I hope it isn't from a broadcast
>medium where you've all heard it...
>
>Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Ferdinand Marcos are on an
>airplane, which suffers total engine failure.  There is only one
>parachute for the three of them.
>
>Reagan says:  "I am the President of the United States.  If I am killed,
>the entire free world will mourn for me.  I should have the parachute."
>
>Gorbachev says:  "Who cares about the capitalists?  I am I killed, the
>entire communist world will mourn for me.  I should have the parachute."
>
>And Marcos says:  "Why don't we vote on it?"
>

Marcos won 435 to 12.