Reply #2: I was born that way.

[leveymg]

My very first political memory is riding on my Dad's shoulders in a big crowd in New Haven, Ct, and a man with a nice smile reached up and shook my hand. It was JFK at a campaign rally on a sunny, crisp day in October 1960.

My father used to joke that he was the only Naval Officer in the US 5th Fleet who voted for Adlai Stevenson. My mom used to host UNICEF Fundraisers in our back yard. When I was seven or eight, a friend of my parents showed an independent film in our living room of his interview with Fidel Castro in Cuba, who had taken power just a few years earlier. Americans did not visit Cuba back then as tourists.

Guess I could have done worse.