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Barbara Chew Special to the Olean Times Herald

November 12, 2013

Words can have consequences

How ironic that Nate Smith’s letter defending his comparison of the Obama administration to Germany in the 1930s appeared just two days before the 75th anniversary of Kristallnatch.

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