In 1972, when I was 19, I was the New York State Student Coordinator, for the general election, for George McGovern for President (against Nixon). It was a cool job, because I got to organize speaking tours by Daniel Ellsberg and Daniel Berrigan, who were still technically "underground," as well as being the co-organizer of McGovern's final election rally at Trump Village in Brighton Beach (that would be Fred Trump, liberal father of Donald), while maintaining a full class schedule at Yale.::::::::
Gloria Steinhem in August, 1971, by Artnet Magazine
Best of all, I organized a parade from Columbia University to Central Park in honor of Senator McGovern, with Gloria Steinem and independent journalist Geraldo Rivera as informal grand marshals of the parade. After the festivities, I ended up, alone, for an hour, at Gloria Steinem's East 73rd Street walkup apartment, with Gloria. I was 19, she was 37. As I pointed out to her at that moment, she had been on the cover of Newsweek in the summer of 1971, when I had run the Committee to Unsell the Vietnam War with the late Ira Nerken. We shared a gin and tonic.
Click here to read the very pictured Artnet Magazine article in full.
I have a law degree (Stanford, 66') but have never practiced. Instead, from 1967 through 1977, I tried to contribute to the revolution in America. As unsuccessful as everyone else over that decade, in 1978 I went to work for the U.S. Forest (
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