He was drawn to conservative politics after seeing -- and not liking -- anti-war sentiment on [Harvard's] campus near the end of the Vietnam War.Roberts, "captain of the football team and a talented wrestler", was born in 1955 and would have been 18 years old when the draft ended in 1973 -- but like so many conservatives, he preferred to fight the war in Vietnam by proxy.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
JOHN ROBERTS, JR.: ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE CHICKENHAWK
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