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![“When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in the suburbs, no scandals, so nothing to write about. So what he did is concoct one of the nuttiest claims I've ever seen.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a3e/noam-chomsky-42_claims_when-paul-johnson-got-to-me-he-was-in-tr_1427228.jpg)
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