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After college, Alter found himself at “loose-ends.” In his senior year he had moved off campus with his roommates and had thrown himself into a thesis on the changing nature of American policy during the Vietnam...
...history concentrator, Alter calls writing the thesis “one of my best experiences at college...
David Kaiser ’69, who advised Alter’s thesis, remembers Alter the college senior as “quite low-key, mid-western, with a great political background having grown up in a very political atmosphere...
University President Lawrence H. Summers remembers talking with Alter about his thesis as a graduate student in Lowell House, where Alter lived as an undergraduate...
...known Alter for a long time, and we talked on and off when I was in Washington,” Summers remembers, “but I was first bowled over by him when he was writing his undergraduate thesis on Vietnam...a lot of people write theses about Vietnam, but most people who are college seniors don’t have the sophistication to interview the best and the brightest politcal figures like MacNamara and 290 other people. That just left me enormously impressed...