Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumIn Turmoil of ’68, Clinton Found a New Voice
Here's a good article from the NYT in 2007 about Hillary Clinton's changing political perspective in college for those who are interested:
Dynamism is a function of change, Ms. Rodham said in her speech. On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means. Although we too have had our demonstrations, change here is usually a product of discussion in the decision-making process.
Her handwritten remarks on file in the Wellesley archives abound with abbreviations, crossed-out sentences and scrawled reinsertions, as if composed in a hurry. Yet Ms. Rodhams words are neatly contained between tight margins. She took care to stay within the lines, even when they were moving so far and fast in 1968. While student leaders at some campuses went to the barricades, Ms. Rodham was attending teach-ins, leading panel discussions and joining steering committees. She preferred her confrontation politics cooler.
She was not an antiwar radical trying to create a mass movement, said Ellen DuBois, who, with Ms. Rodham, was an organizer of a student strike that April. She was very much committed to working within the political system. From a student activist perspective, there was a significant difference.
As the nation boiled over Vietnam, civil rights and the slayings of two charismatic leaders, Ms. Rodham was completing a sweeping intellectual, political and stylistic shift. She came to Wellesley as an 18-year-old Republican, a copy of Barry Goldwaters right-wing treatise, The Conscience of a Conservative, on the shelf of her freshman dorm room. She would leave as an antiwar Democrat whose public rebuke of a Republican senator in a graduation speech won her notice in Life magazine as a voice for her generation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?pagewanted=all
Cross posted from GD.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Little did she know what lay ahead for the rest of her years.
I am enjoying my own flashbacks to those years and the conflicts that drove a generation to mass protest an establishment that had veered far off course for us to be still.
And we did it without cell phones or Internet.
It was word of mouth, posters, messages of the musicians that shaped that era.
College campuses became our rally point.
We set out to change the world & here we are having to do it again for the same reasons, and because of the same ideology of the establishment at the top controlling the movement & legitimacy of our society.
William769
(55,147 posts)ETA: Where's the link to it in GD?