A Good Read from Ben Stein

[MontanaKid]

Here is Ben Stein's self-written bio from his web site, or at least an excerpt that covers his "war years." I guess, like Cheney, he had more important things to do.

Ben Stein (Benjamin J. Stein) was born November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C., (He is the son of the economist and writer Herbert Stein) grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended Montgomery Blair High School. He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 as valedictorian of his class by election of his classmates. He helped to found the Journal of Law and Social Policy while at Yale. He has worked as a poverty lawyer in New Haven and Washington, D.C., a trial lawyer in the field of trade regulation at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., a university adjunct at American University in Washington, D.C., at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. At American U. He taught about the political and social content of mass culture. He taught the same subject at UCSC, as well as about political and civil rights under the Constitution. At Pepperdine, he has taught about libel law and about securities law and ethical issues since 1986.

In 1973 and 1974, he was a speech writer and lawyer for Richard Nixon at The White House and then for Gerald Ford. (He did NOT write the line, "I am not a crook.")

[MORTARDUDE]

I agree with the Kid. Most local papers supported the war past 1970. You have to remember the clout the 3 major TV networks had in those days. Kind of hard to recall now with 500 cable channels, 24 hour instant news, and the Internet. When Cronkite said we had lost, that was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. Of course LBJ and his cronies didn't help much, what with seeing the light at the end of the tunnel all the time, fighting battle hardened guerillas with conventional military tactics, having sesignated areas as no-bom zones, micro managing the war, and using the Guard and Reserves as a refuge for those who wanted to stay out of combat...

Larry