Being as I am as old as Rand...
...I too was in 6th grade. Heard about it on the way back from lunch. Called home to get the lowdown, and talked my mom to drag our 14" Zenith B&W TV down to the school so we could watch things unfold. (Trust me , being the one who got the TV ported in was a Big Deal! back then.)
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shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT