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Not that I don’t share Mike Miner’s cynical regard for army specialist Patrick Daley’s career move to Iraq (Hot Type, January 14), but there’s an element not considered that can only unsettle those who do actually recall it: about 40 years ago we had another shining political youth, perhaps more shiningly political than even the present Daley scion–Obama-like, in fact, if you can apply that weird notion to the old-line, Daley-run Democratic machine–whose career arc presages eerily what we’re witnessing today. A close acquaintance of the mayor senior’s family (and, per Jimmy Breslin, the closest friend of his second son, Mike), golden boy president of his senior-year high school class (which I know about firsthand, since I was there), to college at Harvard (with a letter of recommendation from President Kennedy, it was rumored), then four years later to U. of C. for a degree in law–which I’d guess he never achieved since the last I heard, circa 1967, he’d joined the marines, as a junior officer shipped out to Vietnam.
Evanston
