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On 12/5/18 7:32 PM, Rod Speed wrote:


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On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 11:31:42 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:36:02 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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On 12/5/18 5:47 AM, micky wrote:
All federal offices are closed todayin the US.

Is that normal for the day of a president's funeral? Or is it a
stunt
by Stumpie to a) to make it look like he respected Bush,


President Bush is a true war hero.

So was Ike but that didnt happen with his.

Not true again.

Easy to claim.

Easier to remember. I was in DC in 1969.

So have no idea what happened in the rest of the USA.

They had more of a show for Eisenhower than we saw this week.

Irrelevant to whether they closed all the federal
offices in the entire USA that day. Didnt happen.

"Administration officials yesterday said the government was shut down
for the funerals of John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman
and Lyndon B. Johnson, citing those closings as the basis for President
Clinton's decision to do the same for the Nixon funeral."
From:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/04/26/closing-government-for-funeral-is-us-tradition/45935dce-4fe2-4876-953c-d68c02c46802/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.829b12cec623

Government wasnt in fact shut down for those, whatever that stupid journo
claimed.