Political Service

Doug Weil shares: 

Your question about Princeton in the Nation's Service made me reflect on my life. Although Iwill have have an obituary full of communal contributions, when I reflected on my life this afternoon I realized that I was capable contributing much more to making the world a better place. And thus fell short on meeting the ultimate challenge of a Princeton education.

I also relaized that the one event that may have caused a difference was Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968. Had he won the Presidency I would have likely had a job in his administration since I was in charge of an Indiana congressional district in 1968 presidential primary and close to his staff because of work I did on President Johnson's low income housing commission. Not only did the event affect me personally but I think it is the one event in our lifetime that had the most impact on the country.