Reply #12: Hillary Clinton was anti-war during VietNam -68 - election

[papau]

I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.

FROM A REVIEW OF HER BOOK:

After three years in Park Ridge’s "Maine Township East High," Hillary was redistricted into newly-built Maine South High, for her 1964-65 senior year. During that year her combination of socially-conscious youth activities at First United Methodist Church, earning A’s in a high quality academic program, and the plethora of extra-curricular activities reported here must have produced a weekly schedule as tight as a political campaigner’s. But in the fall of 1964 she also found time to go door-to-door for Barry Goldwater—the last Republican Presidential contender she was to support (in 1968 she followed first Eugene McCarthy and then Hubert Humphrey).


FROM AN INTERVIEW ON TODAY

“You graduated from Wellesley in 1969. You were the first student commencement speaker.”

FROM ANOTHER BOOK REVIEW

At Wellesley, Hillary Clinton was president of the Young Republicans. It was Vietnam that fomented the first challenge to her politics, and the GOP's rightward drift that helped push her into the Democratic Party. "I didn't leave the Republican Party as much as it left me."