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On Gary Bauer’s Announcement That He Is Not Having an Affair With a Young Staff Member

Could we have thought that Gary Bauer Would trifle with, perhaps deflower, A youngish person not at all his bride? Could we believe this stern avower

Calvin Trillin

October 7, 1999

Could we have thought that Gary Bauer Would trifle with, perhaps deflower, A youngish person not at all his bride? Could we believe this stern avower Of family and Christian power Would have a little something on the side?

Well, no. We all now think it’s great he Has said the lass is just a matey And he has never had a liaison. Republicans might find it weighty To have him as their Warren Beatty. He doesn’t seem well cast to play Don Juan.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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