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Newsweek Examines Eliot Spitzer's Life | 31 comments (31 topical)

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Sort of a side note (5.00 / 2) (#2)
by shoephone on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 03:25:05 PM EST
This confused me a bit:

At Princeton, he was politically active, but while other students marched in protest, Eliot played squash with the university president, William Bowen.

Spitzer and I are the same age (48) and attended college during the same years. Yes, Reagan was a nightmare for the middle class, but I don't recall any protests at all in those years except for a few smatterings of protests against U.S. involvement in Central America. And I went to a very liberal UC.


A Wiki list of the Protest Washington DC marches (none / 0) (#26)
by ding7777 on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 07:11:20 PM EST
September 19, 1981, Solidarity Day march. AFL-CIO organized march to protest Reagan Administration labor and domestic policies. 260,000 march.

November 27, 1982 - Washington Anti-Klan protest

March 1 to November 15, 1986 - The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. From Los Angeles, California to Washington D.C. (a.k.a. The Great Peace March) to raise awareness of the growing danger of nuclear proliferation and to advocate for complete, verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons from the earth.

October 11, 1987 - Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The second such march on Washington drew 500,000 gay men and women to protest for equal civil rights and to demand government action in the fight against AIDS.



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All of them after Spitzer graduated (none / 0) (#27)
by scribe on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 07:35:56 PM EST
from Princeton, and some even after he'd graduated from law school.

QED.

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