Small memories

When I worked on the New Hampshire Presidential Primary campaign of a certain unnamed former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, the campaign's chair was Eli Segal, a fellow Brandeis alum who also helped run President Clinton's first campaign in 1992. Eli would once in a while make small talk with me because I only own shirts purchased at the Brandeis bookstore, and one day he noticed my unshaven face, put his hand to my beard, and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell your mother."

He also created Americorps and was the chairman of City Year, as if helping elect Bill Clinton wasn't enough good for one man to do in his life.