Prof. Greg Jackson
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In fact, she's about to experience her recently guaranteed constitutional right.
While she waits, let me catch you up on what's going on.
Earlier this morning, the Nixon White House gave the US Senator from West Virginia, Jennings Randolph, the honor of securing the nation's first 18-year-old to register to vote.
See, ever since World War II, 18-year-olds have been of age to be drafted, and Jennings has been one of the leaders of the old enough to fight, old enough to vote debate.
Over the course of three decades, he introduced legislation to lower the voting age 11 times.
Now, at last, the 26th Amendment to the Constitution has been ratified.
The legal voting age has been lowered from 21 to 18.
The question is, who will be first?
The well-connected senator knew exactly where to find a next-generation voter, nearby Davis and Elkins College, where he had once been a member both of the faculty and board of trustees.
When the phone call came into the office, 18-year-old work-study student Ella accepted the historic invitation.
And look, here comes the Senator now.
He picks Ella up, and as they drive along the icy road, the two strike up a conversation.
Ella shares that her brother, Robert, was drafted and began service the month before his 21st birthday, when he would have been eligible to vote.
Less than two years later, he was killed in action in Vietnam, only one day before he was to return home.
The sad irony on so many levels.
Specifically, the 26th Amendment Jennings had fought so long to pass had come too late for Robert.
He was old enough to fight and die for his country, but not old enough to vote.
Then, another revelation.
Ella tells the senator she's planning to register as a Republican.
After all, her family are Republicans.
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