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Minutes from the ABS executive session

Chester A Worthington III moves to declare the permanent mood for all ABS meetings is to be "Positive Ambivalence"
  • Votes:
    • Hartford Brown Broadcloth III - Aye
    • Chester A Worthington III - Aye
    • Cornelius Crowninshield III - Aye
    • Parkington Sedgwick, Esq - reflects in silent appreciation
    • Preston Wigglesworth Peabody III - Aye
After much debate and bargaining, Hartford Brown Broadcloth III introduces a bill to adjust the reading list.  

Bill Title:  ABS House Bill 001
Bill detail:  Adjustments to the reading list
  1.           Both volumes of Kotkin's, Stalin must be purchased immediately
  2.           Volumes one and two of Richard Evans' Third Reich will be read when ABS reads FDR biography in spring of 2019
  3.            All three volumes of Caro's, LBJ will be read after the reading of Oxford History's, Grand Expectation in 2019 or 2025
  • Votes:
    • Hartford - Aye
    • Chester - Aye
    • Cornelius - Aye
    • Parkington - Approval in absentia 
    • Peabody - Nay

Comments

  1. AnonymousMarch 16, 2018 at 9:13 AM

    Caro's LBJ is 4 volumes, not 3. I've read them, and I vote Nay on the third reich book.

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  2. Mr. NelsonMarch 22, 2018 at 2:08 PM

    Your vote has been recorded. Hartford Brown Broadcloth III is using the Caro volumes as negotiation bait for including other biographies of dictators. A new book bill may be in the making. In the meantime, the ABS hopes your Kotkin biographies have been ordered.

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