In April, the Yale Daily News‘ Courtney Pannell profiled our classmate Rick Merkt:
Candidate reflects on political roots at Yale
Winston Churchill once said, “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.”
While New Jersey Assemblyman Rick Merkt ’71—a self-proclaimed “conservative constitutionalist”—said he has softened up since his undergraduate years, he admits he would have definitely fallen in the first category as a history major in Timothy Dwight College nearly 40 years ago. But his political roots, partly fostered during his time in New Haven, have only developed since his Eli days. . . .
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