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So, you found politics interesting at any early age.

I actually saw President JFK at the Air Force Academy in June of 63 giving the commencement speech. I was 10. In a little more than 5 months later he would be shot & killed. That shocked me that our president could be killed like that.

I don't know if I was interested in politics as such, but read a lot of anti-Communist literature (which made it sound like the Soviet takeover of the whole world was not many years off). My parents took me to listen to Nixon when I was 12. My sister picketed JFK when he visited our city. That was because of our parents' attitude rather than because of any strong interest on her part.

We didn't have a TV in 1960 but I remember listening to the Kennedy/Nixon debates on the radio. Quemoy and Matsu! I was vaguely aware of the 1956 election because of "I like Ike" bumper stickers but probably didn't know the name of his opponent. 1960 was interesting because no one knew who was going to win.