Are personal traits important in a candidate?
In private, presidents and kings have always been human beings who are fallible and who sometimes become somewhat intoxicated with the luxuries of their office. It’s just that in the late 20th century, we as a culture became absolutely fascinated by the personal behavior of anyone in the public eye. The media began to gain access to the private lives of public figures in a way that had never occurred before. What or who turned you on to politics? Since my earliest years of recollection, at 7, 8, 9, I became interested in politics because of my father Franklin Reeve, who has always been extremely politically active. Even though he came from a wealthy family, after graduation from Princeton and getting a Ph.D. at Columbia, he joined the labor movement and became a communist and traveled frequently to Russia. He’s somebody who has always seen things, in political terms, very far to the left. But growing up, I remember there were always very impassioned political discussions at the table,
