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Article: A Dole Aide's Grass Roots? Stories Make Issue of Alleged Past Drug Use
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 9, 1996
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Six years ago, John Buckley wrote a novel in which a White
House speechwriter is blackmailed by a former roommate over having
sold small amounts of marijuana while in college.
"I'm part of a generation that can be blackmailed for having
done something that was a natural part of being an adolescent in the
1960s and '70s," the protagonist says in describing the resulting
media witch hunt.
Now, as communications director for Bob Dole's campaign,
Buckley is suddenly living his fictional nightmare. Reports in the
Boston Phoenix and on WJLA-TV here, charging Buckley with having
used and sold marijuana at Hampshire College in the late 1970s,
mushroomed into front-page news last weekend and ...