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Friday, February 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Talkin' bout my generation

A new book argues that the baby boomers were a "greater generation" than the one that beat the Depression and Hitler. But what did we really do?
By Gary Kamiya

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  • Friday, February 3, 2006 04:27 AM

    Correction needed

    The "greater generation" may have elected Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes, but it never elected, and in fact rejected, Gerald Ford.

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