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POLITICSfor Eugene McCarthy in 1968. He’d worked on Paul Tsongas’sSenate campaign and interned with Tsongas during a sabbaticalfrom CA in 1976. In the late sixties, he invited John Kerry—notyet a senator, but head of Vietnam Veterans Against the War—tospeak at CA.So it was no surprise when Bailey announced a political sleepoverin 2000. He had required his students to work on a campaignand, weeks earlier, had piled several into his car and driven themto Manchester, New Hampshire, to attend a Bill Bradley event andto canvass afterward for the candidate.Bailey’s passion for politics—and that of other CA facultyover the years—spawned a sizable troop of CA politicos, many ofwhom are involved in the 2008 presidential campaign,including Firestone, who remembers the day in Manchester asIllustrationsby Richard P. Clark17WWW.CONCORDACADEMY.ORG SPRING 2008