Barrett and U.S. Representative Frederick L.Grandy '70 (R-Iowa) are the only elected officialsfrom the class of 1970, Powers recalls.

"Grandy first was Gopher from the Love Boat,"Powers says. "An awful lot of people stoppedbelieving in 1968."

Involvement With the Press

Barrett says he spent much of his time as anundergraduate at The Harvard Crimson, where herose to the executive position of features editor.

"At the time, The Crimson was the most excitingand demanding way to connect to political issuesout in the country." Barrett says. "Some of myhappiest moments were spent putting that paper tobed."

Barrett says his most exciting moments at TheCrimson came during the election year of 1968.

"I remember the night Eugene McCarthy walkedinto the Crimson office to tell us privately hewas running for President to end the war," Barrettsays.

Although Barrett's favorite was a profile heauthored on Presidential candidate George Wallacein 1968, he says he also enjoyed writing a surveyof the Transcendental Meditation Center on GardenStreet. For this story he interviewed theMaharishi, the internationally-renowned eccentricfaith healer.

"I was given my mantra, but I never found itspiritually inspiring to utter the mantra aloud,"Barrett says.

Friends say that Barrett, like other studentswho were not involved in campus activism, used TheCrimson as a forum to discuss politics.

"There were people who made it a large part oftheir lives--writing about politics," Powers says."I don't know if [Barrett] had any interestsoutside The Crimson and electoral politics."

James M. Fallows '70, who was president of TheCrimson in 1969, says Barrett worked hard as areporter and editor.

"I don't have any particularly vivid scene totalk about," Fallows says. "My recollections areall positive, but they're not detailed."

Studying Politics

Although he fancied being a historyconcentrator, Barrett eventually decided toconcentrate in government.