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@Jeremy__Kennedy @WSJ Thanks, Jeremy. — PolitiTweet.org

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@qhardy @taylorbuley @WSJ It was 1970! — PolitiTweet.org

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@kvox @WSJ Ha! Luggable from one desk to another, maybe. It was like an anvil. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrianWorldChamp @JoannaStern @WSJ Thanks, Brian. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ambodnar @JoannaStern @WSJ @ThePaulGiamatti Luckily for him, they would never make such a movie. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stepheneugy @WSJ Yes. Awful piece of junk called a Delta Data. But unofficially, many of us used Radio Shack Model 100’s. They were only supposed to be used for travel, but we used them at our desks, propped up by broken pencils. I also worked at home on an Apple IIe. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DennisPOwens1 @WSJ Thanks, Dennis. But the Journal has had many great tech writers, including @karaswisher, @KatieBoehret, and @JoannaStern. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbowpr @WSJ Thanks, Jennifer! — PolitiTweet.org

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@SagarPachorkar @WSJ Thanks! — PolitiTweet.org

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@burhan @WSJ It was from a student strike at Columbia University, where I had received a Master’s Degree a few weeks earlier. The poster, which I had no hand in creating, was a parody of the WSJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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@steven_aquino Next time. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dvvik @WSJ Don’t know about cool, but yes, that’s me at the desk. — PolitiTweet.org

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@crovitz @WSJ Ha! It was actually a parody WSJ poster, “The Street Wall Journal”, from Columbia, in reference to a student strike. I taped it up at the Journal to see if anyone would object. Nobody did. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sfwriter @WSJ I appreciate the kind words. But we were all too slow. — PolitiTweet.org

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@brian_burch @WSJ Thanks for reading, Brian. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sfwriter @WSJ Zero. But 13 years later, when I was promoted to deputy bureau chief in D.C., the bureau chief and I hired a bunch of women. I believe we were the first newspaper to have an all-female White House reporting team. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AnthPB @WSJ High school. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joshjagdfeld @WSJ Thanks, Josh. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lifeasyoshi @WSJ Aw, thanks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Patryan @WSJ Thanks for reading me, Pat. — PolitiTweet.org

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@UncleMax313 @WSJ I was there 3.5 years, and then transferred to Washington. I covered two national auto strikes and the rise of Coleman Young, among other things. I lived in Southfield and our office was on the 17th floor of the then-new Detroit Bank & Trust tower at 211 W. Fort St. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ExportedFromMI @WSJ Cigarette. But there were cigars smoked by the small 5-member bureau team. — PolitiTweet.org

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@flargh @WSJ It’s true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RosalieDonlon @WSJ Thanks for reading! — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChrisPollone @WSJ Thanks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Forty-nine years ago this week, in 1970, I began my national journalism career in the Detroit bureau of the Wall Street Journal. At age 23, I had a typewriter, long sideburns, a loud tie and a tough, honest boss, Larry O’Donnell. Thanks, @WSJ, for taking a chance on me. https://t.co/9y4MFqR1pL — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @reckless: This is embarrassing and shameful https://t.co/Jdo5Kasq6t — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi 2/ I believe in electric cars. But if you are counting on finding chargers on the roads, it can be an issue. Most I’ve seen are a few each in garages and parking lots. My bet is that gas stations will be converted, but over time. We aren’t at the typewriter vs PC moment yet. — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi 1/ Steven, I grew up in the 1950’s/1960’s in southern New England. Our family used to take vacations by car to as far away as Canada. There was no fear of finding gas. But, now, in the mid-Atlantic, the number of electric chargers is tiny by comparison & poorly distributed. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ManojShastri_ @Apple @tim_cook @pschiller @reneritchie The fact that @Apple curates its App Store is a key benefit of buying iPhones and iPads, IMO. It has kept much more malware & scam apps out of iOS than Android. I’m sure there are cases where Apple oversteps, like book and sub purchases. But great apps still often debut on Apple. — PolitiTweet.org