Future Biography…

I enjoy reading the memoirs or biographies of political personalities, specifically those of Americans.

There are often little segments in which the biographer mentions during one event, another event that is related to something down the road.

For example, in a Teddy Roosevelt biography I just read, TR met the main political hand for McKinley at a convention years before in passing. Then that man ended up being huge later on with TR eventually becoming his VP and then President after McKinley was killed.

Or more recently with John Kerry. Richard Nixon hated Kerry and was mildly obsessed with him. He was terrified of what this veteran could do. Therefore, Nixon had John O’Neill (another vet) challenge Kerry and his claims about Vietnam. This was done on television in 1971 on The Dick Cavett Show. Kerry handled O’Neill quite well, and politically moved on. (However Nixon did get the better of Kerry when Kerry lost his Congressional race the following year, which Nixon followed closely.) The interesting ‘tid bit comes in when you think of an organization Mr. O’Niell founded in 2004: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth…

These little things make a reader of a biographer sort of half-smile and think “the irony”.

These stories are momentous for one reason, but prove more interesting for another. Well, today I worked for the US Government for the first time in an official fashion. I started interning for Russ Carnahan of the 3rd District of Missouri. Today also, across the street, John Roberts’ confirmation hearings started today. As pretentious and snotty as this sounds, it almost made me think: Will this day, if I ever do really get into politics, be marked in my biography as a significant day, which was more significant for another reason? I really don’t know, but it was an interesting thought to me today.

Chapter 5
“On September 12th, Chief Justice Roberts’ was undergoing his first day of Senate Judiciary hearings. On that same day, Rogers entered his first federal office building to report for work….”

:eh: probably not, but who knows..