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Where the last lieutenant governor to stick around was a guy who compared people who received public assistance to stray animals. his name was andre bower. he managed to full two full terms. the next lieutenant governor in south carolina serve for a year then quit in a financial scandal. that guy got replaced by the state senator who you see in the middle here, masquerading as a federal general with slaves. he announced that he won't run for re-election. instead he will apply for the job of president at the college of charleston. he said he had been forced by providence and the south carolina ...

0 where we made highly enriched uranium, those plants were consuming 6% of our nation's total electrical output in order to make uranium. wow. but, again, we already had tens of thousands of nuclear weapons stockpiled. how many were we ever planning on using? 50 years ago this week, 50 years ago tomorrow, the new president, the elected vice president who had been elevated to the highest office in the land by the assassination of president john f. kennedy just seven weeks earlier, lyndon b. johnson, 50 years ago this week, stood in front of a joint session of congress to deliver his state of th...

0 when president johnson in the war on poverty made sure every old person in the country had health insurance with medicare and when he greatly increased the amount of money people got from social security. just the size of the check you received as a social security recipient. doing things like that, duh, had a huge impact on the number of elderly people in america who were poor. and it's not hard to see. right now if you look at the official poverty rate for old people in this country, just for the elderly, 44% of the elderly people in america would be considered poor, would be at or below t...

0 our massive, expensive uranium production. >> telling congress he will put the output of uranium by 25%. this is the first cutback since invention of the atomic bomb in 1945. he doesn't say specifically that this will cut down on weapons, but he applied it. >> that was part of the nbc news post state of the union roundup the night of the speech. the same kind of roundtable that we do now. that was 50 years ago this week when lbj gave his first state of the union as president and looking back at that contemporaneous coverage now, you would think that that state of the union address in 1964 wo...

You're even worse than that. >> we should be giving people cash who basically are going to blow it on drugs. >> senator hatch proposed an amendment to the jobs bill earlier this month, to force anyone getting unemployment benefits to submit to a drug test. because, you know, land of the free and all that. now pee in this cup. andre bower of south carolina, compared people on assistance earlier this year to stray animals. >> my grandmother was not a highly educated woman but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. you know why? because of they breed. you're facilitating th...