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Teaching Has Always Been, For Me, Linked To Issues Of Social Justice. I've Never Considered It A Neutral Or Passive Profession.

We're Actually Saying, Here's A Principle That I'd Like To Arc Toward. That's A Very Different Role In Life. I Didn't Expect [barack] Obama To Go To The Root Of Things. I Didn't Expect Him To Have A Principled Position On Anything. I Mean, Just Pay Some Moderate Attention To The Guy.

The Massive Anti-war Movement, Which I Was A Part Of And Which Was A Major Part Of My Life, Never Stopped The War In Vietnam.

Lyndon Johnson Who Was The President Who Was Executing That War, Announced In The Spring Of 1968 That He Would Not Seek The Presidency Again. He Would Go To Paris And End The War In Vietnam. Well We Were Ecstatic.

When [my Dad] Was At The University Of Michigan, My Mom Was A Social-worker. As He Rose, He Voted For [adlai] Stevenson Initially. Then He Voted For [dwight] Eisenhower. Then He Kept Voting Republican Until He Voted For Barack Obama. So That's Kind Of Amazing. But He Was Offered A Cabinet Post By Eisenhower In His Second Term. So He Was Moderate Republican. But If You Asked Him, He Would've Said, "i Don't Have Any Politics. I'm A Business Person." Mainstream, The American View, As He Understood It.