Hustling The Youth Vote
November, 1972
Hustling the Youth VoteIt seemed like a good idea at the time. Hubert Humphrey was running for President, of course, and he was flying from Washington, D. C., to Youngstown, Ohio, to speak to the national convention of the College Young Democrats. There were going to be a lot of empty seats on the chartered 737...and there were going to be 25,000,000 Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 eligible to cast their first Presidential votes in 1972...and more than 6,000,000 of those young voters wer...