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Florida Goes Full Police State Over Abortion Ballot Initiative
Although there is still a dispute over whether Johnson asked in person for the final, decisive 200 votes to be added to his total, there can no longer, thanks to the confirmation, in Salas’ manuscript and interviews, of the sworn testimony of others, be any reasonable doubt that 200 votes were added to that total—six days after the election. DuBose
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Flagler attributed much of the government’s animosity to a personal vendetta being carried out against him by President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he had once supported in a bid for the governorship of New York. Once elected to that post, however, Roosevelt had moved quickly to pass legislation taxing corporate franchises, an act that Flagler deemed
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“Johnson did not win that election,” he said. “It was stolen for him.” And, he said, he, Luis Salas, had participated in the stealing. Three days after the election, he said, he was summoned to George Parr’s office in San Diego, where he found the Duke, Ed Lloyd, Alice City Commissioner Bruce Ainsworth—and Lyndon Johnson. Johnson, according to Sala
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