I went to high school with a perceptive girl, and when I 
asked her who she liked in the 1980 election, she was 
livid. She said it was a private matter.  When I noted that, 
unlike in some nations, thousands were campaigning 
openly for their favorites, she relented, but only on the 
condition I never tell anyone. 


 She said she despised Reagan and thought him stupid. 
But, she said, now that Bush had joined his campaign, she 
would vote for him, because Bush could use his CIA connections 
to get things done unhindered by Congress, and that he could 
also arrange for one of his three most eligible sons to win later.  


 She said, "I'm probably the shallowest person you'll ever meet.  
All I want is to have nice things."  She explained that a pro-
business dynasty was in her interest, if not the nation's.  She 
planned to become a corporate lawyer, which also came true, 
along with the next thirty years of history, just as she 
had predicted. 


 She was only eighteen.