All This Is That: Remembering Dick Tuck on the Democratic loss of control of Congress

Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Remembering Dick Tuck on the Democratic loss of control of Congress

One of my heroes, the famous Democratic prankster/master of dirty tricks, Dick Tuck, ran for office in 1966 and got whupped. His concession speech was short but sweet.

"The people have spoken. . .the bastards."

To see our previous post on Dick Tuck jump here.

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