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Michael Miles Parker's avatar

I’m sorry your wife is bored with the story, but this made my day; thank you for sharing.

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Nancy (South NJ coast)'s avatar

Wonderful post--thank you! I proudly cast my first presidential vote, for McGovern, in "don’t blame me, I’m from Massachusetts," where I was a college student. I had already been a volunteer in 1968 for Eugene McCarthy's campaign, gathering petition signatures to get him on the ballot in my home state, Maryland. I was also put to work at the national headquarters of Scientists and Engineers for McCarthy, in Baltimore, which was run mostly by students from Johns Hopkins University. My job was processing donations, in those days arriving as mailed-in checks. I was a 17-year-old high-school student! (But very diligent and scrupulously honest!)

That was a much more innocent time politically in my country, before Watergate permanently darkened the landscape. Although unsuccessful, the 1968 and 1972 Democratic campaigns trained a generation of young liberal volunteer activists, who have remained involved into our senior years. Our moment has come again in 2024, when democracy itself is on our presidential ballot. And we are out in force for Harris-Walz. I await the delivery of 1000 postcards, which I will address and send to voters in swing-state Pennsylvania in October.

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