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/ Within a month [in 1969] I had met the first of a small but not uninfluential \
| community of people who violently opposed SALT for a simple reason: It might  |
| keep America from developing a first-strike capability against the Soviet     |
| Union.  I'll never forget being lectured by an Air Force colonel about how    |
| we should have "nuked" the Soviets in late 1940s before they got The Bomb.    |
| I was told that if SALT would go away, we'd soon have the capability to nuke  |
| them again -- and this time we'd use it.                                      |
|                 -- Roger Molander, former nuclear strategist for the          |
|                    White House's National Security Council, Washington        |
\                    Post, 21 March, 1982                                       /
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According to the Fact Sphere: "The Tariff Act of 1789, established to protect domestic manufacture, was the second statute ever enacted by the United States government."


In the spirit of William Shakespeare: Thou art a spleeny, sheep-biting nut-hook.