| Quotes: "The Depression knocked him off the farm and flat on his back" & "There are 37 million people in this country who are poor; there are 57 million who are near poor, making $20,000 to $40,000 a year" & "one-third of America still living on the edge" & " the bond between a patrician in the White House and a working man on the Texas-Oklahoma border" & his father: "I can't talk like him but I sure do think like him." |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.
