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...youngster began tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...
...floridly written political column entitled "Verities and Balderdash," he exhorted The Bremen Enquirer's readers to choose right over wrong, and, for that matter, Right over Left. Of Ronald Reagan, Elliott wrote in Spring 1981: "The President is a prophet of renewal in a nation that is losing its self-confidence...He is a prayerful man, and I think that he realizes that, while it's important, our renewal as a nation does not depend upon the state of our economy or the size of our purses, but instead it depends upon our inner selves, and upon our inner sense...
...repeatedly aimed his rhetorical artillery at the Bremen teachers' union, accusing some instructors of selfishness and educational subversion. While an already tense confrontation over school policy heated up, the paper's editorship passed from a Republican to a Democrat, who happened to have two relatives in the teachers' union. Small town politics set in. One week a disclaimer began appearing over Elliott's byline: "The opinions expressed in this column are not those of the editor." Gradually, the space allotted for "Verities and Balderdash" shrank, until finally, the editor cut it to 10 column inches. "That same week there...
Politics at Harvard had never been as rewarding as in Bremen, despite the brief appearance of a vocal conservative undergraduate faction in the 1981-82 school year. Elliott led the Reagan primary effort on campus early in 1980 but relinquished control by the fall because of commitments at home and "a sense of futility about the whole thing here. "He recalls a freshman year conversation with a friend, which shifted from religion to politics: "She turned to me with an intense gaze and said, 'How can you morally justify being a Republican?' I just had no idea how to respond...
...American effort: "I studied my rear end off." He amassed mammoth outlines of lectures and readings, particularly in American history, which became a new obsession. "I loved it once I got used to it. It was just exceedingly exciting. I ended up doing quite well for a guy from Bremen...