Thursday, November 15, 2007

Mormons for Wallace.

Re: that piece about Willard in the NY Times today, this was nice:
Mr. Romney switched to Brigham Young from Stanford to be near his high school girlfriend, now wife, Ann. But the move also continued his isolation from the upheaval of the era. Brigham Young was one of the few places where students had demonstrated in support of the war in the mid-1960s. When Mr. Romney attended, the university president enlisted students to spy on supposedly liberal professors, and the handful of students who displayed peace signs in their windows were told to remove them. Although liberal groups were banned, a chapter of George Wallace’s American Independent Party flourished.
Lovely. Willard is a graduate of the Bob Jones University of the 1960s.

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