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Ninety Days Inside The Empire: A Novel by William Appleman Williams

Glimpses of An Election

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There was no need for a special issue of The Freedom News. Gillmor had enough class to content himself with a brief notice on an inside page of the Gulf Sentinel.

Tuesday morning about eleven-thirty, Marsh walked over to Burton's office. The door was open and he heard the Senator snarling at somebody over the telephone. He waited until Burton came out for lunch.

"You keep teaching me things, Senator. I came by to thank you."

"Don't go mushy on me, Marsh. I learned some of them from you. Now let's go have a couple of very stiff drinks and rile our bellies about Mexico. I do not like that at all."

Marsh followed him out the door, smiling.

-- That's the great thing about politics. It never stops. One of the proven perpetual motion machines.