Word: factum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no more difficult political role than that of a conservative from the baby-boom generation. Attitudes and behavior that were commonplace in the late 1960s -- about drugs, sex, military service -- are now viewed with post- factum moralism through the prism of two decades of cultural revisionism. By 1969 millions of American men of draft age would have gone to great lengths to avoid combat in the most unpopular war in the nation's history. Is an entire generation of draft avoiders, who stayed within the law, barred from high political office? Or is there a special standard...
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