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When he traveled on Wednesday through a blizzard to the North Country hamlet of Littleton, the part of the state that gave him his margin last time, he met his disciples. Lillian Giberson, 84, spent most of her working life working for a Democrat in the Maine legislature. She hobbled across the street in the falling snow to hear Buchanan speak at the Caledonia Opera House. In the pocket of her old blue snow jacket she carried an envelope containing $100. She said she'd been paid $50 by the Alexander campaign to post his sign in her front yard...
Kalman's biography won the American Historical Association's 1992 Littleton-Griswold prize for the best book on the history of American law and society...
That is an understatement, says Robin Littleton, McVeigh'sArmy roommate and one of his closest friends in the service. "Tim was the perfect soldier," Littleton told TIME. "I swear to God he could have been sergeant major of the Army -- he was that good of a soldier." One of his former commanders, Captain Terry Guild, 28, now stationed in Hawaii, agrees: "He was a very normal, good American serving his country." He was also a loner who never seemed to have a girlfriend, never talked about his family, and kept to the barracks reading Guns & Ammo and watching...
...with guns. He often kept a 9-mm Glock pistol in the barracks with him -- not locked up in the arms room, as rules require. His personal arsenal, including a Czech machine gun and assorted pistols, shotguns and rifles, was stashed in the trunk of his car. Still, neither Littleton nor Guild would have pegged McVeigh as a terrorist. "Something happened to Tim McVeigh between the time he left the Army and now," Guild says...
...turning point may have been when he failed to get into the Special Forces. "Before this, I'd never heard Tim talk bad about the military," says Littleton, now an Indianapolis steelworker. "I think he felt he got a raw deal, and he wanted out." A letter McVeigh wrote Littleton shortly after both left the Army spooked him. Illustrated with a cartoon showing a pistol painted with skulls and crossbones, it read: "So many victims, so little time...