“They already had contingency plans ready in case of terrorism, violence, whatever, which they had inherited from Clinton, who had put together some terrible legislation after Timothy McVeigh blew up the building in Oklahoma City.”

—  Gore Vidal

2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)

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