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Men who cry
Related to your editorial, “Crybabies
organize” (Feb. 17), you may be interested to know that Jesus
Christ wept a lot. King David was also a great weeper.
Former US President Richard Nixon cried when he
delivered his famous “Checkers (the name of his dog) Speech” and
told newsmen, “Now you don’t have a Nixon to kick around
anymore.”
The actor Patrick (“Dirty Dancing”) Swayze
cried on a TV show. He said it was sad his father did not live long
enough to see him become a movie star. Then he started sobbing.
Sen. Edmund Muskie was a leading candidate for
the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1972. A New
Hampshire newspaper however attacked his wife and Muskie, during a
speech, started sobbing. Some analysts said the incident cost him
the nomination.
Recently Sen. Hillary Clinton was talking with a
group of women about the hardships of politics when her eyes
started to well. The TV eye caught that moment and she won the state
primary after the incident.
PEDRO SAN JUAN
Quezon City
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