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From '68 I have a row of buttons on my bulletin board--McCarthy, Kennedy and Humphrey. In '69 I wore a "Carmichael" button and went house to house with the candidate individually meeting every voter in the congressional district. The incumbent never left Washington and stayed there in November with 66 per cent of the vote. The last button on my bulletin board says "Goodell...
...might be interested in my history as a swami. I began my career exactly eleven years ago this fall. My sister had a collection of buttons, all kinds of buttons--sewing, advertisements, and political. One day my sister let me pick any button I wanted. It was then the magic power first rushed to my hot little finger and I chose a red-white-and-blue Wilkie button. The die was cast, and Wendell never knew what...
That fall I put a "Rockefeller for President" poster in my window, and after Nixon got the nod, I wore a huge (it's still my largest button) "Our Nation Needs Nixon-Lodge" button that pulled holes in my sweater. I fell asleep in front of the television on election night and went to Miss Gross's fifth grade class the next morning with tears in my eyes...
...steered clear of politics for several years after that traumatic experience. Not until the fall of '64 did I don another button and this time it read "Keep Keating". We had fierce debates in our ninth grade class, which according to a straw poll we won over to our side. Yes, I kept Keating, but it was what I kept him from--winning, that is. Of course, I also had a Johnson button, but somehow we all lost that...
Somewhere in between '64 and '68 I picked up a "Keep Chet Kowal" button. Kowal, our mayor, committed suicide shortly after a major scandal and shortly before the election. But being my pick, of course, the suicide attempt failed...