The Forgotten Governor
JANUARY 6, 2007
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This week the third black governor in United States history took office in Massachusetts. Can you name the other two? Most people know L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, but the first black governor, P.B.S. Pinchback, is often forgotten. We'll meet the man who helped change the face of American politics and then virtually disappeared from the annals of history.
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How many images of Barack Obama and John McCain have we each seen in the last month? How many sound bites have we heard from them? Hundreds? Thousands? Politics aside, this has got to do some strange things to our brains. It has to affect our sub-conscious on some basic level. So we want to know, Are you dreaming about the candidates? Has Obama or McCain or Biden or Palin crept into your R.E.M. State? Maybe in a toga? Or scuba gear?
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