, who died on Wednesday. My memories of Joe Lieberman go back a long time. He was two years ahead of me atLaw School, and I remember him laughing and chatting with other law students in the halls. It was no secret that he had political ambitions.
Greenfield’s tweet provides a good summary of Joe’s political career: “He led the life he was destined to lead–a life in the arena…and for all the rough and tumble of politics, for all the serious disputes and conflicts, he never lost his civility and good nature.” To which I would add that running through his political life was a large dose of ambition that prompted him to defy the political odds and, usually, to win.
But if that wasn’t risky, Lieberman’s next move was. In 1970, he ran as a reform Democrat in the primary against New Haven state Sen. Ed Marcus, a 12-year incumbent who was Senate majority leader, and Lieberman won. University towns in those days weren’t the left-wing bastions they later became, and New Haven then was more town than gown — more of an ethnic than a university town, heavily Italian but also with large numbers of Irish and Jewish voters as well.
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