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Professor of Economics Richard Cooper questions how much voter registration indicates a professor's political leanings...
Massachusetts is so liberal, Cooper notes, that the most important elections are often the Democratic primaries. In order to have political voices in the state, many professors choose, logically, to register as Democrats...
...addition, Cooper says, party affiliation can have little to do with political ideas or voting decisions. During the Nixon administration, Cooper says, Federal Reserve Chair Arthur Burns asked him to serve on the Federal Reserve Board. Burns told Cooper that he was embarrassed to ask him his party affiliation...
...Cooper replied that he was a registered Democrat in Connecticut. And Burns--who had served as a counselor to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon--confessed that he, too, was a Democrat...
...second verse, the two chalked-faced officials, at least, were mouthing some of the words. Later, Cooper told me the episode had been the most embarrassing of his entire life. "I kept thinking," he said, "What will my friends think when they see this...