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Delegate Needle.

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DELEGATE NEEDLE: I rise to a point of personal

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privilege, and to follow up Delegate Hopkins' work.

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Quite a few of the delegates are familiar with

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the work of our poet laureate of this Convention, our Chief

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Clerk. He has written quite a few limericks. If I may

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take a moment, I hope the delegates will enjoy just a

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couple of them, and I hope it might be possible to have thes

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reproduced and delivered to all delegates. I am sure they

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would appreciate having them.

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Several weeks ago Ira Wagonheim wrote:

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Judge Powers says we'll finish next week,

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He says it with tongue in his cheek;

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Today's calendar and agenda

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We won't have to amend-a,

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(But the prospects look mighty bleak.)

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Our President never wavers,

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Though proper, he sometimes grants favors;

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But today he's pendantic,

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He's really quite frantic,
'Cause someone just lost his lifesavers