Blue America Welcomes Philip Munger

firedoglake.com — My Political Odyssey. My own first political statement I can recall was on November 22, 1963, as I was beginning to eat my lunch at my south Seattle high school’s cafeteria. We had begun to digest that JFK had just died. I turned to a friend and said, "Jeez! Lyndon Johnson is president!" From high school to Oberlin Conservatory to the U.S. Army