"[Gore] was working with Douglas Brinkley," said Melissa Bonney Ratcliff, a Gore spokesperson. "It was part of a series of conversations they've had over the past few months."
Denmark Groover III '69-76, a classmate of Gore's who left Harvard to enlist in the military, had a changing influence on Gore's opposition to the war.
"I admire him a great deal; I admire his courage and rashness," Gore wrote. "I'm not sure at all that he didn't do the right thing."
Gore's mixed emotions were not rare at the time, according to Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59, then director of the Office of Career Services.
"I think there were a fair number of undergraduates who were conflicted as Vice President Gore says he was," Fox said.
Yet, at the time, Gore said he felt alienated by his classmates.
"They just can't understand. With their tremendous vocabulary and intelligence, they just can't understand," he wrote.
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