RE: Deadly Waste

["Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>]

Ruth,

Are you saying that voting for President is like gambling in Las Vegas?  Boy, that explains everything.

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD  20715-2024

E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)     

-----Original Message-----
From: RuthWeiner@AOL.COM [mailto:RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:06 AM
To: rorthen@EARTHSCIENCES.NET; jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Deadly Waste

The speculation about Yucca Mountain resulting in fewer casino customers in Las Vegas is reminiscent of the quote from reporter Fletcher Knebel (as quoted in David McCullough's biography of Harry Truman)  on the prediction that Truman would lose the 1948 election to Dewey,  Speaking of the crowds that greeted Truman's train during hie "whistlestop" campaign, Knebel wrote "Of course, we experts in the press car talked about the crowd, and we finally decided it didn't mean a damned thing.  Anybody will come out to see [the] President of the United States....But that doesn't mean they'd vote for Harry Truman.  He was going to lose.  We believed it because we wrote it every day."

Ruth

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
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