Obama at Hackley
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- October
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Today I wrote about a speech that Barack Obama gave at the Hackley School in 1991.
He was a law student at Harvard, and was invited to the school as part of the Bruce C. Forbes Lecture Series. Bruce Forbes was an alumnus and the brother of Malcolm Forbes, who funded the series in his memory.
Obama spoke about change of course—partly in the context of the 1960s, which seems to have been a theme of the lecture series.
According to an account written by one of the students, he faulted the activists of the 1960s for believing change would happen would immediately.
The references to the 1960s are especially interesting when you think about the election. The country sometimes seems as if it is still fighting that decade’s battles; the ‘60s are just below the surface—John McCain as a prisoner of war, the Iraq War as a stand-in for Vietnam, bringing troops home with honor. Even silly flaps about why Obama did not wear a flag pin.
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