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.

-Bill Ayers

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When [my Dad] Was At The University

Bill Ayers

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.

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Living In A Bubble As I Said In A Featherbed Of Privilege. That's Why Leaving Home, Leaving The Prep School And Going To The University Of Michigan In The Early '60s Was A Moment Of Awakening And To Go To A Place Like Michigan And To See Suddenly A World In Flames And The Injustices All Around Was Quite A Wake Up Call. I Lasted A Year And A Half At Michigan Before I Dropped Out And Joined The Merchant Marines And I Was A Merchant Marine For My Sophomore Year Then I Came Back To Michigan.

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