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...It’s an honor to be associated with an institution as venerable as the IOP,” Leach said in interview yesterday. “Jeanne has been an exceptional head of the IOP, and, personally, I am looking forward to working with our students and staff...
...Leach, 64, said his priorities as IOP director would be to increase student participation in the 2008 presidential primaries, and to continue the trend toward greater internationalization of the institute...
...Young people have never had a greater vested interest in politics,” Leach said. “It isn’t grandfathers who are asked to go into the armed forces or potentially face a draft. And on economic issues, young people have an interest in fiscal reasonableness—if you amass fabulous debt, the people who are going to pay for that are those who are just now entering the workforce...
...Leach, a moderate Republican and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was defeated for reelection in 2006 by a first-time candidate, marking one of the biggest surprises of a cycle in which Republicans lost 30 seats in the House...
...Many experts blamed his defeat on a toxic political environment caused by the deteriorating situation in Iraq, even though Leach himself had opposed the war from the start...