“Politics is in my bones. I grew up hearing my parents hollering at the TV.”

—  Pete Buttigieg

2 December 2004
Rhodes Scholars announced
Ken Gewertz
The Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/12/rhodes-scholars-announced-2/
2004

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