Friday, March 19, 2010

Nuala on the campaign trail


Have finally finished Chapter 5, likely to be the longest chapter. The focus is the Pell Grants, Pell's opposition to the Vietnam War, and his tough 1972 reelection race against John Chafee. He won, of course, with a strategy that called on his wife to again hit the trail, as she had so effectively in 1960 (the 1966 race was a blowout). Nuala impressed the people (and media) that she met during speeches and door-to-door campaigning. Here she is leaving a house in October 1972. Note the Pell literature in her hand. And that white picket fence is so '50s (and early '70s).

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