Political, Lyndon La Rouche for President

On the main street of Copenhagen in 1979, we saw a booth manned by several young people, set in the middle of the shopping street, with an advertisement for Lyndon LaRouche for President of the US. I asked what their opinion would be if people in the US campaigned for a man to become the head of Denmark’s Government, and they didn’t like that idea at all.

They told us that LaRouche was the most famous man in the US, and that he would win in a landslide. I told them that I read the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and listen to network news, and had never heard of the man. They were shocked.

That was true at the time, but of course we have heard of him many times since. LaRouche was presidential candidate for the U.S. Labor Party one time, was a candidate for U.S presidential nomination of the Democratic Party 6 times, and plans to run again in 2004. He was convicted of fraud or tax evasion or mis-use of contributor’s Visa Cards, depending on which story you want to believe, and served five years in jail. While he claims to be a Democrat, the Democrats don’t claim him.

Now jump ahead to 1988, in Paris, France, in the southwest corner of the city at Point de St. Cloud, a huge traffic intersection like you have never seen. While in a left turn lane, driving a Renault RV (French vehicle, French Pilote RV) with a German license plate, someone handed me some Lyndon LaRouche for President of the USA, literature. The young man was a German, and was sure LaRouche would be the next President of the US. A German, in Paris, promoting a candidate for president of the USA. How’s that for internationalism.

Traffic behind us was building, and horns were blowing, so we looked for a parking place in the next block or two, so we could go back and find what was going on. We never found a parking place within easy walking distance, and although we drove through that intersection other times, we never saw them again. We have no idea who they were, what they were doing, or why they were doing it.