| January 30, 2009 | - One day before the 360th anniversary of the execution of Charles I, the Illinois State Senate voted 59 to zero to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich. “I thought about Mandela, Dr. King, and Gandhi,” said Blagojevich prior to the impeachment, “and tried to put some perspective to all this, and that is what I am doing now.” Lieutenant Governor Patrick J. Quinn succeeded Blagojevich as governor of Illinois. “You want to know my philosophy?” said Quinn. “One day a peacock. The next day a feather duster.”
| Source 1:
The Edge of the American West
Source 2:
Washington Post
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Chicago Sun Times
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NYTimes
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| March 5, 2006 | - A physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, India, speculated that the "red rain" that fell in the Kerala district of western India in 2001 was filled with extraterrestrial, bacteria-like material from a passing comet.
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The Guardian
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| March 12, 2005 | - In India, several hundred people reenacted Gandhi's 1930 twenty-four-day march to the Arabian Sea to make salt. Nearly half of India's cabinet marched, although many returned to their hotels after walking a short distance.
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BBC News
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| January 7, 2004 | - Senator Hillary Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis.
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CNN
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| November 4, 2003 | -
Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, said that Palestinians should "adopt the ways of Gandhi."
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Times of India
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