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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack

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"When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy"

- James Ellroy

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This quote is written / told by James Ellroy somewhere between March 4, 1948 and today. He/she was a famous Writer from USA. The author also have 25 other quotes.

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