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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC Mar 26

    Twenty-sixth Amendment, reducing US voting age to eighteen (from twenty-one), was endorsed by Congress this week 1971:pic.twitter.com/LTMHqPdxTe

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      2. Arlene Hirsch‏ @ashirsch Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        GOP-led Congress is probably regretting that decision after Saturday's teenager-led March for gun reform.

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      3. The Right Defense‏ @TheRightDefense Mar 27
        Replying to @ashirsch @BeschlossDC

        No they're not. And the special interests funded and led the march. Even taxpayer money was used by some to fund some buses for some school districts. Oh, and the March for Life was twice as large as the March for our Lives.

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      4. Arlene Hirsch‏ @ashirsch Mar 27
        Replying to @TheRightDefense @BeschlossDC

        Where are you getting your March for Life statistics. Can't find any that support your assumption and not sure how it's relevant. Do you support the rights of fetuses but not the rights of children not to be shot at school?

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      1. Michael W Mullins‏ @MichaelWMullin2 Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @BelievnTheDream

        This was huge and history is repeating itself! I’ve been voting ever since and when each of my children turned eighteen they registered! I can’t stress enough VOTE✌️

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      1. Juli armstrong‏ @Juliarmstrong4 Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Remember this was a direct result of the Viet Nam war. 18 yr olds being drafted when they had no vote led to this amendment. The Parkland students may very well lead to another, if nothing else but at the state level.

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      1. PaTresha 🌊 🍂 🦃 🍁‏ @PaTresha10 Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        I remember well the Vietnam protest song, Eve of Destruction lyrics- you’re old enough to kill, but not for votin’, you don’t believe in war but what’s that gun you’re totin’.

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      2. Mark Davis‏ @MarkDavis Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        And how interesting it is that the gun control crowd is clearly willing to repeal this and put it back to 21. Surely that's the case, isn't it? Or is a gun purchase the only right they seek to artificially delay for 3 years?

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      2. Jim Burns‏ @jamesfburns1953 Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Allowed me to vote (for the losing side of course) in the 1972 presidential election.

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      3. JamesFMcCarty‏Verified account @PiedPuffBird Mar 26
        Replying to @jamesfburns1953 @BeschlossDC

        Me too, Burnsie

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      1. Kokomo Kid‏ @KokomoKid1 Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        It's too bad more of these young people don't actually vote. If they did, we wouldn't have this current diaster in D.C.

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      1. Deplorable Hoosier‏ @rs0114 Mar 27
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @CGasparino

        And what a mistake that was. Now we have all the brainwashed college aged kids eligible to vote.

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      1. Lisa Keller‏ @missterwilliger Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        The year I turned 18. Been a voting fool every since.

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      1. Sue‏ @SueSublime Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        My first chance to vote, and I have ever since. As I remember it was a poor turn out by the new voters and we saw what happened.

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      1. Ingeborg  ⭐️‏ @IngeborgRakvag Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        The second signature is just showing off to Carl Albert. But the joke's on you, second signature, because I can read Carl Albert but I sure can't read you!

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      1. Nan Stegall‏ @StegallNan Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        If they had to go to War of course they had to vote on who would send them.

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      1. Mary Louise Barna‏ @LittleMaryBarna Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Was there a specific voting age when the Constitution was ratified? What were the other qualifications needed to vote then?

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      1. NaomiH_nothing‏ @NaomiH_nothing Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        I do not understand. Please. One can vote at 18 (that is choose, impact), get killed in the military service when 18 but cannot drink a beer before 21 b-day? Dissonance? Any other "free country" overruling choice this way?

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      1. Gerry Cohen‏ @gercohen Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @mburroughs47

        Ratified in <100 days, NC was the 38th on July 1, 1971. NC also ratified the 19th Amendment (Women’s Suffrage) May 6, 1971.

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      1. MKanone‏ @NF_ATACR Mar 26
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        A dark day in American history, our country's turning point for its downfall.

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