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next day it would be all over, and he would have dropped all these great things that he was going to have for the miners. You know, all these things that have broken the hearts of people who have heard him, it's said.

But the curious thing is that it never broke the hearts of the miners, because they knew John meant common sense. In the end, John was going to get them something, and they trusted John to get them the best that was available at the time. It was the best available, not the best program necessarily, but the best available. And of course, there was a distinction between what was the best available and what they could hold out for.





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