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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Mr. UD Reports…
...that the Galbraith memorial at Harvard















today was very moving, with many old liberal lions
(McGovern, Kennedy, Steinem) telling funny stories.
William Buckley was there for diversity.
As the event ended, a bagpiper playing Auld Lang Sine
led the procession out.


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Update: Details from the Boston Globe, including a way dumb remark from Michael Dukakis:

"I should have made him my campaign manager," Dukakis said of Galbraith after the service. "I might have won."