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Originally posted by exlrrp What did Ben Stein do during the Vietnam War?
Just curious
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James
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Being born (Silver Springs, MD) in 1944, Ben Stein would have been 18 when he entered college (Columbia) studying Economics from about 1962-66, then graduate school in Law. Afterward, he worked for a poverty law group and in a variety of other such endeavors. He was a speechwriter and lawyer for Richard Nixon in 1973-74, and within ten years got started on his acting career.
I guess he must have had a deferrment.
I read that NEW YORKER article in full, not too long ago. It didn't come across quite the way Mr. Stein has characterized it, IMHO... it was basically about a VN guy who had played both ends against the middle, and survived. I found the piece informative about a facet of the goings on that I had not much knowledge of beforehand.
People need to keep in mind, please... anyone who writes anything for any publication (especially ones like the NEW YORKER) is GONNA face the dread Editors, so it is hard to know what the author's full article might ever have actually looked like. In more than 35 years of writing for publication, not ONCE has any article of mine ever appeared as written... and some of the butchery has been quite embarassing.