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Mike Gravel
Former Senator, (D) Alaska
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Big Think Interview with Mike Gravel
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August 11, 2009 | In Politics & Policy, Business & Economics
Saturday July 18th, Burlington, VT
6th Annual DemocracyFest ~ July 17 - 19, 2009 ~ Burlington, VT The 6th Annual DemocracyFest will be held this summer, July 17-19, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, VT. Senator Gravel will be speaking at 6pm on Saturday (July 18th).
July 18, 2009, 4:49 PM
Saturday July 18th, Burlington, VT
6th Annual DemocracyFest ~ July 17 - 19, 2009 ~ Burlington, VT The 6th Annual DemocracyFest will be held this summer, July 17-19, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, VT. Senator Gravel will be speaking at 6pm on Saturday (July 18th).
July 18, 2009, 4:49 PM
Saturday July 18th, Burlington, VT
6th Annual DemocracyFest ~ July 17 - 19, 2009 ~ Burlington, VT The 6th Annual DemocracyFest will be held this summer, July 17-19, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, VT. Senator Gravel will be speaking at 6pm on Saturday (July 18th).
July 18, 2009, 4:49 PM
Saturday July 18th, Burlington, VT
6th Annual DemocracyFest ~ July 17 - 19, 2009 ~ Burlington, VT The 6th Annual DemocracyFest will be held this summer, July 17-19, 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington, VT. Senator Gravel will be speaking at 6pm on Saturday (July 18th).
July 18, 2009, 4:49 PM
Mike Gravel is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election. He is chiefly known for his efforts in ending the draft following the Vietnam War and for putting the Pentagon Papers into the public record in 1971.
Born in 1930 to immigrant parents in Massachusetts, Gravel enlisted in the Army in 1951 and served in West Germany. A self-stated dyslexic, Gravel was educated at Columbia University%u2019s School of General Studies in New York, where he drove a taxi to support himself. Gravel's first steps into politics were in the Alaska House of Representatives, before he won his party's nomination to the U.S. Senate in 1968. During the 1980s, after Gravel lost his senate seat, he worked as a real estate developer, consultant and stockbroker.
Gravel is a strong supporter of direct democracy, and specifically, the National Initiative, which refers to proposals to allow for ballot initiatives at the federal level.
