Corona Virus Quarantine - Don't Blame Nixon - Greetings from Berlin - Screwed by Nixon

            Nixon had the foresight to die before the Corona Virus epidemic - he still might be blamed.

I was in graduate school at the time (1969). Two years later he "took revenge" against the school (the Provost had testified against one of his pet programs) by cancelling all draft deferments and federally sponsored financial aid to the students, just before the fall term. 

I had the school write a letter to the draft board -- they sent it by registered mail and gave me the receipt. At the "appeal interview" they denied having received the letter - I pulled it from the file and waved it at them - they still denied seeing it. The interview ended with the statement "I would hate to see the day that we actually needed SOMEONE LIKE YOU in the army."  I was still classified as 1A but knew they would never take me. {I stayed calm but seething with sarcasm, could hear yelling and furniture breaking from the other interview rooms.}

I had to pay the full (exorbitant) tuition that term - completed both degrees and dropped out.

The next year (1972) I voted for Nixon anyway. A few years ago I told this entire story to his brother Ed.

Taken on: April 8, 2020

Tags:

corona

virus

shutdown

quarantine

President

Richard

Nixon

visit

Berlin

Germany

draft

board

appeal

sarcasm

yelling

broken

furniture

tuition

drop-out « less

Sets appears in: • Corona Virus Quarantine - Found in House

Stats: 326 views

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder