Word: flemming
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...hundred years ago, being appointed a Kentucky Colonel would have put Pacelli at the head of the state militia. The appointments became honorary in 1885, after the militia was disbanded, but even honorary colonels are charged with a formidable task. Former Kentucky Gov. Flem D. Sampson, a legend in colonel history, pronounced the group in 1931 “a great non-political brotherhood for the advancement of Kentucky and Kentuckians.” Seventy years later, Pacelli is proud to serve the same lofty ideal, determined to meet the high standards of his office and “throw...
...dark prince, Richard Nixon. Kennedy died and stayed dead. Nixon was the real Comeback Kid. Add a touch of Lyndon Johnson to Clinton's character - not the tragic, Lear-like LBJ, but the shrewd cornpone conniver, the genius politician - and finish the picture off with a quantity of Flem Snopes. There you have him, the Kingfish from Hot Springs, as gaudy and complicated as Americans...