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After lunch, Caleb and I headed towards the nearest McCain-Palin phonebank. It was the Saturday before the election, and Caleb wanted to spend the afternoon volunteering. As we walked, Caleb told me about his summer abroad. It was his first time out of the country, and he sounded slightly apologetic for liking Europe so much. In Paris, he celebrated his job with Rove by trying escargot. It was different, he told me. “I’m a Texan, you know, I like to eat cow.” Caleb seems so smart and so careful about...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

When I asked Caleb if wants to be president, he laughed and stretched out his arms uncomfortably against the back of the white leather banquette. We were in a trendy little Georgetown restaurant, all sharp lines and arctic surfaces. Caleb had already told me that his postgraduate plan is to work in the private sector. He will always be involved in politics, he said, but maybe just as a donor or volunteer. Many people on campus seem to think you aspire to the presidency, I told him. “That’s hilarious,” he said...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...hick from west Texas” line, Alexander I. Burns ’08 chuckles and shakes his head. Alex is a friend of Caleb’s and a writer for The Politico, a Capitol Hill paper. During the Republican National Convention this summer, Alexander and Caleb were having dinner when a NBC camera descended on Caleb. The convention had been canceled that day because of Hurricane Gustav, and an NBC reporter asked Caleb, a Republican delegate, “Are you looking forward to getting things going tomorrow and getting back to partisan politics...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...themselves—intellectually, morally, and socially—for leadership.” It was a refreshing perspective. That’s how I wanted to envision my president—like Cincinnatus, who took leadership of Rome during a crisis and then quietly returned to his plow. Caleb was certainly preparing himself for leadership (“I love America,” he told me. “I love issues”) and maybe that was enough. I asked Carl Cannon whether he thought Caleb might have White House dreams. Caleb had been in Cannon?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...Caleb’s successor as president of the Harvard Republican Club. He thinks Harvard kids from the Northeast misinterpret Caleb’s Texas good manners as smarminess. “It’s more of people trying to fit the office to Caleb than Caleb trying to fit himself to the office,” Colin said. “People project what they want on people,” Caleb’s blockmate Derek M. Flanzraich ‘10 said. Yes, their blocking group calls themselves the “P-Block...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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