Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Too bad the poll doesn’t give precise breakdowns for Mason City that was the inspiration for River City in “The Music Man” and is the home of the Meredith Willson museum. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Olivianuzzi @scottbix The long-time congressman from Detroit, Charles Diggs, who represented an overwhelmingly Black congressional district in the late 20th century, had a family-owned funeral home called, of course, The House of Diggs, established in 1921. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Olivianuzzi @scottbix In 1996, Bob Dole (then 72) did an Iowa event at a community theater that was advertising its current production: "The Cemetery Club." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbf1755: How do I love thee, @MerriamWebster? Let me count the ways. https://t.co/HV18e6YAQw — PolitiTweet.org

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What you really need in an AG is someone who has credibility to deal with how to handle the lawlessness of the Trump years. Not every individual appointment has to be diverse but the universe of all major appointments. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SusanZakin @benyt That’s how I remember the Voice. — PolitiTweet.org

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Bret Stephens critiquing the 1619 project. @benyt raising questions about the reporting of Rukmini Callimachi. Suddenly, the NY Times has more intramural disputes than the Village Voice in the 1970s. Mostly I see this as healthy. https://t.co/YcNrdqn5x4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Put me down as making a strong bet that the Biden Attorney General will not be someone who is nakedly political like Cuomo. Though I would happily see Cuomo in a role related to the pandemic like secretary of HHS — PolitiTweet.org

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@AlecMacGillis @BostonGlobe @BryanMarquard I'm so sorry about your father. The obit made me wish deeply that I had known him. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mikedolanindc @HelenKennedy I'm embarrassed by my error. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HelenKennedy I had assumed that it was Society of Jesuits, an homage to Biden's religion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GradyForrer The original premise excluded presidents who first ascended to the White House as VPs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 Largely, because I was focused on elected presidents. And I didn't miss it....exactly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ASFried I understand your emphasis. But I was thinking more of the elite educations like Stanford (Hoover), Amherst (Coolidge), Harvard (2 Roosevelts, JFK), Yale (2 Bushs) Columbia (Obama), Wilson (Princeton), Georgetown (Clinton). And, yikes, the Wharton School. — PolitiTweet.org

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That is a wonderful fact. But Harding is a graduate of Ohio Central College, which is rarely confused with Harvard. And your definition excludes Truman who never attended college. — PolitiTweet.org

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@petermarksdrama When you've read just 17 books in your lifetime, you jump at a chance to refer to one of them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Strongly recommend "East West Street," on the two rival legal theorists who developed the concepts of genocide and crimes against humanity. Both were born in Lvov before World War I and emigrated to the US and Britain. https://t.co/rQqpqNxAtc — PolitiTweet.org

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In her opening statement, Amy Coney Barrett tells the story of a freshman paper in college about "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Here is a quote from Capote's novella that speaks directly to the hearings: "Anything that suggested a direct question, a pinning-down, put her on guard." — PolitiTweet.org

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In her opening statement, Amy Coney Barrett tells the story of a freshman paper in college about "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Here is a quote from Capote's novella that speaks diredtly to the hearings: "Anything that suggested a direction question, a pinning-down, put her on guard." — PolitiTweet.org

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I just awoke from a dream where it was 1:00 pm on Election Day — and I was bored out of my mind waiting for the returns. May reality on Election Day be as placid as my dream. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm late to this moving column by @mcurtisnc3 about the White House permanent staff: "My thoughts have turned to... all those butlers, waiters, drivers, housekeepers and other staffers..,who serve this president and his family, the power differential a yawning gulf." — PolitiTweet.org

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@katherinemiller Please add me to your list. Best email: [email protected] — PolitiTweet.org

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@KennethTuran I am reading “ A New World Begins” by Jeremy Popkin. It’s fine. But it can’t hold a candle to historians like R.R. Palmer whom I read centuries ago in college. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacMcCrary Thanks. I genuinely had forgotten. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonIsAwesomest You're right. But I couldn't resist a Park Slope Food Co-op joke. — PolitiTweet.org

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I covered Dole in 1996. And what I remember is that "where's the outrage" was mostly focused on the Clinton fund-raising scandals. But having covered that campaign, I am nonetheless baffled what the signs saying "15%" refer to. That's how evanescent so many campaign issues are. — PolitiTweet.org

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Isn't Mike Pence campaigning in The Villages akin to Kamala Harris giving a speech at the Park Slope Food Co-op? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Olivianuzzi @petersagal It is an amazing piece. And I'm not a liar or a dier. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jarowley Always wished that I had seen a game at Municipal Stadium. — PolitiTweet.org

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I assume that the Trump team has arranged for absentee ballot requests to be processed on the spot. Because if I were a Trump voter seeing the Super-Spreader in Chief in person, I wouldn't wait even eight hours to cast my ballot. You can't be too careful in a pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org