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BlueCaliDem

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12. Yep. Mitt Romney publicly protested the Vietnam war protesters
Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:36 PM
Jul 2016

only to dodge the draft on religious reasons which were only afforded the Mormon faith at the time.


It was in his freshman year at Stanford University that a young Mitt Romney took an early step toward establishing a political identity all his own. Students had turned against the Vietnam War, and in May 1966, they staged a sit-in at the office of the university president to protest the draft.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/choice-2012/artifact-two-mitt-romney-protesting-the-protesters/






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