Description: Mike Gravel is a former US Senator with many years of expertise in direct & representative democracy including referendums, medical marijuana law & more.
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria. I first met Sen. Mike Gravel in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York in early 2006 after a mutual friend told me Gravel was contemplating running for president.
By Branko Marcetic While Mike Gravel never earned the respect of the political establishment, he passed from this Earth with his conscience untormented by the ghosts of screaming civilians whose lives those in Washington regularly
By Tom Z. Collina President John Kennedy took powerful pain medications. President Richard Nixon was a heavy drinker. President Ronald Reagan had dementia. And now President Donald Trump has the coronavirus. These conditions can significantly