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Behold the power of spin...
Nov. 27th, 2011 03:22 pmJ Edgar Hoover warned Richard Nixon not to attend the premiere of Bernstein's Mass (at the Kennedy Center), implying that it wouldn't look good for the President to be seen hearing an anti-war statement in a Latin* text...
...specifically he was referring to the phrase Dona Nobis Pachem.
* (Latin being the "language" of the Catholics, who were still being seen as non-American and mostly Democratic Party voters at the time, my how things change...)
...specifically he was referring to the phrase Dona Nobis Pachem.
* (Latin being the "language" of the Catholics, who were still being seen as non-American and mostly Democratic Party voters at the time, my how things change...)
