From: NY Times
He
backed the full legalization of abortion and the repeal of laws that
criminalized drug use, prostitution and homosexuality. He attacked
campaign donation limits and assailed the Republican star Ronald Reagan
as a hypocrite who represented “no change whatsoever from Jimmy Carter
and the Democrats.”
It
was 1980, and the candidate was David H. Koch, a 40-year-old bachelor
living in a rent-stabilized apartment in New York City. Mr. Koch, the
vice-presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, and his older
brother Charles, one of the party’s leading funders, were mounting a
long-shot assault on the fracturing American political establishment.
The
Kochs had invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the burgeoning
libertarian movement. In the waning days of the 1970s, in the wake of
Watergate, Vietnam and a counterculture challenging traditional social
mores, they set out to test just how many Americans would embrace what
was then a radical brand of politics. MORE
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