By the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
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See also:
Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature, recorded in Los Angeles June 4, 2017.___________________________________
So, therefore, let's return, to the Udalls of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado!
When I worked on Tom's first campaign for the House of Representatives, I gathered signatures of registered voters to meet the requirements to be on the ballot, in New Mexico which have to come from 30+ counties. I gathered 25% of his requirement from Santa Feans in all walks of life in organic grocery stores, in galleries and among officials. As New Mexico's Attorney General, voters were enthusiastic.
I came up with the idea to use door hangings, plastic bags with articles about Thomas' accomplishments on both sides of an 11-by-17-inch sheet, then used them in the South Capitol precincts in Santa Fe, door to door, almost every door therein, and when the votes were counted, those precincts were the highest number of voters for Udall. (It seemed far more polite and time saving to hang the plastic bag on the door, and not ring the door bell.)
As the campaign progressed to stuffing envelopes, it boiled down to me, Tom's step-daughter, and his mother, Irma Lee Udall, and Tom in a small adjacent office calling lawyers to ask for money to run against the appointed incumbent, who was from Los Alamos, and that alone compelled and galvanized me, right off the bat, to try to help Thomas win!
At one point in conversation with Irma Lee, I asked her about Morris' last years after his career in Congress and his having run for President in 1976 when Carter won the nomination and then the Presidency.
Carter's opponent was "Gerald Rudolph Ford", ostensibly from Grand Rapids, Michigan, the 3rd in line for the Presidency after Nixon was forced to resign, which was after the Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign. (Etymologically speaking, the one good thing about Spiro was his referring to critics as "nattering nabobs of negativism.")
[Agnew used the phrase in the heat of the 1970 mid-term congressional campaign to refer to politicians critical of Nixon administration policies. Nothing in his speech referred to the press. Although the initial coverage of Agnew's distinctive phrase was accurate, within a year journalists began to usurp the aphorism and conflate it with Agnew's celebrated November 1969 speeches criticizing the news media. Although journalists have perpetuated other myths, the misappropriation of Agnew's alliterative phrase is distinctive because it reveals a primal journalistic need to recast criticism as a blame-the-messenger screed.]
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