Recorded in Woodbine, Iowa, 2019
This snapshot was gathered in conjunction with the Museum on Main Street program at the Smithsonian Institution and its "Stories from Main Street" initiative. The project is intended to capture Americans' impressions and stories about their small-town and rural neighborhoods, waterways, personal memories, cultural traditions, work histories, and thoughts about American democracy. This story is from a group of narratives inspired by the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America."
Speaker 1: Talk about a memorable voting experience or your first time voting.
Speaker 2: I remember the first time I voted it was in 1972, I believe, when I was 18, and I grew up a Democrat, and my family was all Democrats, but I voted for Richard Nixon because he cancelled the draft in the Vietnam War, and I did not want to go to war. So, I was really happy, but I never told my family I voted Republican. They might have disowned me at that time. (Laughs) So, that's memorable.
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