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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12501)	2/17/2006 3:42:26 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541403

Your last paragraph can be summed up as follows: Sen. Arlen Specter, A US senator. I'm not a fan right now. My own best-ever Senator candidate is Paul Douglas. Douglas was the senator from Illinois through the middle 50s to the late 60s, I think. I do know he was not reelected in the 68 election. I voted against him in that election because he was not opposed to the Vietnam war. And Chuck Percy, his republican opponent was. It was the right vote for the times but I continue to regret it. To get an ever so brief view of what an extraordinary human being he was, one need only read the relevant portions of Robert Caro's latest volume of his ongoing Lyndon Johnson biography. When Johnson was the majority leader, Douglas was his principle foe. Since Caro wrote the definitive political biography, in my view, and knows how to bring drama to his writing, his picture of the back and forth between the two is priceless. And, reading the third volume of Martin Luther King last night, I learned that Douglas' wife participated in the final Selma, Alabama march in 1965, at a time when that was very dangerous indeed. And if you enjoy good political biography, I recommend Caro's work. Not only the Johnson volumes but his book on Robert Moses are something else, as the kids say.