I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.
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I grew up in a very liberal place.
I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.
My family had liberal positions.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
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