'68 RIOTS LEFT MARK ON CURRENT LEADERS.Byline: James R. Carroll Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire A future president watched the convention on a motel television in Shreveport, La. A future first lady told her parents she was going to the movies and sneaked downtown to witness the chaos outside the convention. A future Minnesota politician smelled the tear gas tear gas, gas that causes temporary blindness through the excessive flow of tears resulting from irritation of the eyes. The gas is used in chemical warfare and as a means for dispersing mobs. with his father on what should have been a happy night. An astronaut resolved to go into politics. As the Democratic Party on Monday returns its national convention to Chicago for the first time since 1968, many now-prominent Democrats - including President Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Rodham (rŏd`əm), 1947–, American lawyer and political figure, wife of U.S. President Bill Clinton, b. Chicago, grad. Wellesley College (B.A. 1969), Yale Law School (L.L.B., 1973). Clinton, Hubert H. Humphrey III and John Glenn - recalled their roles as bystanders or bit players in the political drama of 28 years ago. It was a time when a party split over the Vietnam War Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. exploded and ``Chicago '68'' became a symbol for anger, violence and division in America. A lot of the Democrats in Chicago this week were watching 28 years ago. Here's what some of them were doing. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON Working with his future stepfather, Jeff Dwire Jeff Dwire (d. 1974) was the third husband of Virginia Clinton Kelley, mother of former American president Bill Clinton. Dwire and Kelley were married on 3 January 1969 in Hope, Arkansas; the ceremony was performed by the Rev. , on business in Shreveport, La., Clinton found himself in front of a motel television every night of the convention. ``He spent the week watching the convention alone in a motel room,'' and sometimes with the less-interested Dwire, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. White House press secretary Mike McCurry. The violence on the Chicago streets distressed the 22-year-old Clinton, just graduated from Georgetown University Georgetown University, in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.; Jesuit; coeducational; founded 1789 by John Carroll, chartered 1815, inc. 1844. Its law and medical schools are noteworthy, and its archives are especially rich in letters and manuscripts by and and about to go to Oxford University in England on a Rhodes scholarship Rhodes scholarship Grant to attend the University of Oxford. The program was established in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes. Until 1976, candidates had to be unmarried male residents in a Commonwealth country, the U.S., or South Africa. In 1976 women were accepted. . ``He recalls being very sad about what was happening to the delegates and to the city and to the Democratic Party,'' McCurry said. Clinton will be nominated for a second term Wednesday night and will deliver his acceptance speech Thursday night. HILLARY RODHAM Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
It was the summer before 20-year-old Hillary Rodham's senior year at Wellesley College Wellesley College, at Wellesley, Mass.; for women; chartered 1870, opened 1875. Long a leader in women's education, it was the first woman's college to have scientific laboratories. , and she and her pal Betsy Ebeling told their parents they were going to the movies, but they sneaked down to the Democratic National Convention instead. ``It was pretty scary,'' the first lady said in an interview with Knight-Ridder. ``We didn't get really into anything other than just looking at what was going on. There were so many people in the streets and lots of police officers and confusion and commotion.'' Rodham, who lived in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge Park Ridge, city (1990 pop. 36,175), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb adjacent to Chicago, on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1873. It is chiefly residential. Several national and international corporations have their headquarters in Park Ridge. Nearby is O'Hare International Airport. , had spent the summer working for the House Republican Conference as an intern. She went to the Republican National Convention in Miami the previous month with a group working for then-New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 – January 26, 1979) was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, governor of New York State, philanthropist, and businessman. to try to deprive Richard Nixon of the nomination. ``So I had this incredible experience watching all this in Miami, and then I come home and (watch) the Democratic convention on television and was just amazed,'' she said in an interview in the Yellow Oval Room The Yellow Oval Room is an oval room located on the south side of the second floor in the White House, the home of the American president. First used as a drawing room in the John Adams administration it has been used as a library, office, and family parlor. in the White House. ``I thought we would go down and see it,'' the first lady said. ``It was too confusing and overwhelming to really make sense out of it.'' Her friend Ebeling said: ``It was exciting and frightening all at the same time. But it was really thought-provoking. After school, we went back to school differently after feeling people's passion on both sides.'' Hillary Clinton will address the convention Tuesday night. VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore Driving from their hometown of Carthage, Tenn., Gore and his sister Nancy Sister Nancy (born Nancy Russell) is an 80's dancehall (reggae) singer from Kingston, Jamaica whose biggest hit was "Bam Bam". In 2006, she collaborated with Thievery Corporation on their 2006 compiliation Versions, on the track, "Originality. joined their parents in Chicago. Gore's father, Albert Gore Sr., was a senator from Tennessee, and the family had seats in the convention hall. The younger Gore, 20, saw some of the street protests while he was in the city. Gore is scheduled to address the convention Wednesday and Thursday nights, and he is expected to be a center of attention four years from now as a candidate for president. SEN. JOHN GLENN The 1968 Democratic National Convention was Glenn's first. He had become a national hero six years earlier when, on Feb. 20, 1962, he was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. In 1968, the 47-year-old Glenn was on the board of World Book Encyclopedias and got convention tickets from a company executive. ``We had box seats 20 feet from the podium,'' Glenn said. ``I could sit there when Dan Rather got clobbered by somebody. I watched him get off the floor. We watched Mayor (Richard) Daley give his signals. It was very interesting.'' He did not see first-hand any of what was going on outside the convention hall. But the convention reinforced his desire to run for public office. ``I guess I came away from that kind of turmoil more concerned that I should get involved. . . . It made me more determined to get involved in politics,'' Glenn said. He was elected to the Senate in 1974 and is the first Ohioan elected to four consecutive terms. Glenn will be attending the convention as a senior member of the Ohio delegation. MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL HUBERT H. HUMPHREY III Humphrey was a 26-year-old law student with a new baby when he came to Chicago to help his father, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. The turmoil of Chicago took the gloss away from his father's convention triumph, Humphrey said. On the night after his father's nominating speech, the vice president and his family were celebrating in their room at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. ``It was very warm,'' Humphrey said. ``Someone tried to open a window. And what came in the window but the stench of tear gas?'' ``This should have been a high point,'' he said. ``Instead, what you've got is a near riot-revolution.'' Humphrey, the most popular Democrat in Minnesota, returns to Chicago this year as the chairman of the state's delegation to the convention. |
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